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Undated handout photo issued by Tobias Baumgaertner/Ocean Photography Awards, Tobias won the Ocean Photography Awards' community choice prize for the image of the two fairy penguins 'flipper in flipper' which was taken in St Kilda, Australia. PA Photo. Issue date: Wednesday December 23, 2020. See PA story ANIMALS Penguins. Photo credit should read: Tobias Baumgaertner/Ocean Photography Awards/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Heartbreaking image of widowed penguins comforting each other 'flipper in flipper'

World December 23, 2020 By Elisa Menendez

Elephants hand out face masks to children during Christmas celebrations

World December 23, 2020 By Harrison Jones

More than 20 puppies adopted by police who rescued them from breeding farm

More than 20 puppies adopted by police who rescued them from breeding farm

News March 24, 2025 By Sam Corbishley

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum is a Congolese microbiologist who helped to discover the Ebola virus Matthieu Alexandre/AFP/Getty Images

Scientist who discovered Ebola in the 1970s warns of future pandemics

Tech December 23, 2020 By Jeff Parsons

Brussels sprouts dogs shoot

These hilarious photos of dogs trying to catch Brussels sprouts will make you smile

Lifestyle March 24, 2025 By Lizzie Thomson

The best cats of 2020 who got us through a tough year

Shopping December 23, 2020 By Ellen Scott

MERCURY PRESS. Pictured: Scruff, Diesel and Benji as three wise men..A lorry driver has posed up her three patient pooches to create this hilarious nativity scene to spread Christmas cheer. Heidi Birchall planned the Christmas scene on a whim before dressing three of her pups in towels and placing them around a manger with baby Jesus represented by a pottery dog. The 54-year-old dog lover, from Ormskirk, Lancs., then spent just ten minutes persuading the three well-behaved mutts ??? a Jack Russell and two Border Terriers ??? to pose while she tried to get the perfect snap. SEE MERCURY COPY

Dogs pose for brilliant nativity scene to spread Christmas cheer

Shopping March 24, 2025 By Ellen Scott

Inhalers filled with powerful llama antibodies could be used to treat severe cases of Covid

Inhalers filled with llama antibodies could save Covid-19 patients

Tech December 23, 2020 By Jeff Parsons

Four white lion cubs

Super rare white lion quadruplets prepare to meet the public for the first time

Lifestyle December 23, 2020 By Faima Bakar

a comp of dogs looking for homes this Christmas

16 dogs looking for homes this Christmas

Lifestyle March 24, 2025 By Aidan Milan

fabio the dog

Welsh dog owner spends more than £7,000 on presents for her pooch

Lifestyle March 24, 2025 By Lizzie Thomson

Moment 20 golden retrievers destined to be slaughtered for meat in China are saved

Moment 20 golden retrievers destined to be slaughtered for meat in China are saved

US March 24, 2025 By Jack Longstaff

***EMBARGOED UNTIL 16.00 GMT, MON DEC 21 (11.00 ET)*** This mummified wolf pup dating back 57,000 years has been unearthed - entirely frozen in time. See SWNS story SWNNwolf. The Ice Age creature's head, tail, paws, fur and skin were perfectly preserved in the permafrost. Its remains dug up by a gold miner near Dawson City in the Yukon also included exceptional details of the muscle tissues. The animal, a female, died suddenly in a den collapse. The remarkable find opens a window on life in Canada's far north when woolly mammoths roamed the Earth.

Wolf puppy frozen for 57,000 years 'perfectly preserved' in permafrost

Tech March 24, 2025 By Metro Science Reporter

Skin disease covering 70% of dolphin's body in lesions linked to climate change

Tech December 22, 2020 By Metro Science Reporter

Rescue Worker saved baby elephant with CPR

Rescue worker gave baby elephant CPR and saved its life after motorcycle crash

World December 21, 2020 By Harrison Jones

Faces of all 39 migrants found dead in back of Lorry in Essex

Two men guilty of manslaughter over deaths of 39 migrants in lorry trailer

News December 21, 2020 By Sam Corbishley

Picture: SWNS Dog on the mend after miraculously surviving 150ft fall off a cliff

'Lucky lad' Walter survives 150ft fall from cliff

UK December 21, 2020 By Harrison Jones

CATERS NEWS. (Pictured: Reunited dogs Luther and Jessie.) A pooch who was dumped at a shelter has been reunited with her sibling just in time for Christmas..Jessie lived within four different homes within 12 months before now owners, Mark and Sarah Broomhead, spotted her on the Dogs Trust website..She had the same markings as their dog, Luther, and quickly realised, through looking at puppy photographs that it was in fact his sister. (SEE CATERS COPY)

Family rescues their dog's sister from shelter after recognising her from puppy photos

Families December 21, 2020 By Natalie Morris

ELF DOG ON THE SHELF

Woman creates hilarious elf dog snaps with her two pooches

Lifestyle March 24, 2025 By Laura Abernethy

Katie Price reacts to petition stopping her from owning animals Rex Features|Instagram

Katie Price 'devastated' over petition calling for her to be banned from owning animals

Showbiz March 24, 2025 By Isla Williams