DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .

An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .

THESE BREATH-TAKING photographs show the natural beauty of Iceland's most famous waterfall .

PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .

MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .

Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .