A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .
A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
A woman has revealed how she was left scarred for life after accidentally falling into a bonfire at a friend’s BBQ .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
This artist had a lot of bottle to re-create a masterpiece painted with nothing but 24 litres of cola .