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...
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
An American woman whose skin turned silver after using nose drops is warning people of the dangers of medicines containing the metal .
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
STANDING on its hind legs, a nosey polar bear presses its paws against the window of a truck and takes a peek at the tourist inside .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .