HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .

LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .

THIS UNUSUAL collaboration between a mother and her two-year-old daughter makes for some stunning works of art .

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

A stunning ice cave in Iceland is illuminated by sunlight as the bright blue ice appears glow inside .

From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .

A GIRL nicknamed JAWS by bullies who taunted her because of her underbite is em-bracing her new post-surgery life .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .

A Hereford woman has lost 10st 3lbs after ditching her £260-a-month takeaway habit .

A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .