LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London. Aware of her hitchhikers, the female red deer seems unfazed as the starlings arrive. The scene was photographed by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron on a day out in Richmond Park, London. Samuel, of Watford, says: ‘I have seen this behaviour before from starlings, but I have never seen so many on one deer.
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
A woman has taken her house back in time - by spending £10,000 to transform it into her Victorian dream home .
A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .
A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
WITH A STERN look of determination on their faces, these adorable pooches perfect their doggy paddle as they dive head first into a swimming pool .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .