A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws. The hippo, half-submerged in a lake, spots the egret sitting on a branch in the water, but the lucky bird flies out of sight and off the lunch menu. British photographer David Driver captured the shot in Lake Mburo in Uganda, Africa. The 57-year-old, of Oakworth, West Yorkshire, says: ‘The egret managed to escape moments before the hippo got to him, and so the disappointed beast sank back under the water, clearly unimpressed!’.
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .
A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .
This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .