STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .

A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .

It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .

Standing on the edge of a never-ending black hole, this is one leap you wouldn't want to make .

Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .

A former chocolate addict, who used to gobble more than a THOUSAND bars a year, has shed an astonishing 10st after giving up her favourite treats .

THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .