A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face. Canadian beauty, Cassandra Naud, 22, loves her unique appearance and even credits her birthmark for making her memorable in the dancing world. The pretty brunette, from Alberta, Canada, who was once told by a casting agent to digitally erase her birthmark from her headshots, says: 'My birthmark is a huge part of me. “It makes me unique and memorable, which is especially important for the career I’ve chosen.'
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
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Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
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Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .