This dog dances better than you’ll ever be! I really do not expect these movements from any animal. Shake that ass!

This is a golden-mantled ground squirrel Jasper and his new friend teddy bear. This was shot by Betsy Seeton in the Colorado Rocky Mountains at 10,000 foot elevation where Jasper makes his home.

Franco Banfi is an Swiss photojournalist specialising in underwater subjects and stories. Franco went to the Mato Grosso region of Brazil to capture these amazing close-up of enormous anaconda snakes in their natural habitat:

Artist Guido Daniele has turned his hand to creating a wholly different style of painting. Rather than working on canvas, he uses human hands to produce these stunning animals – like a Technicolor version of the “shadows on the wall” game. Guido was born in Soverato (CZ – Italy) and now lives and works in Milan. Guido started working with living canvases in 1990, painting the bodies of models for advertising campaigns. Then he began specialising in hands.

The awkward moment happens in Smithfield Horse Fair, Dublin, Ireland when a garda tries to check for an electronic tag on an impressively-endowed horse.

Della the Staffordshire bull terrier is known as the talking dog of Hornsea. When playing with a ball, or jumping up excitedly when she hears the jangling of her lead, Della looks like a normal dog. But it is only when her owners take her for a walk to the shops that her talents become apparent.

A team of German and American scientists have discovered a new species of chameleon, Brookesia micra. The 29mm reptile is no bigger than the flies an average-sized chameleon would feed on. Scientists discovered four new species – called Brookesia micra – on a small islet just off the main island of Madagascar.

A living mammoth has reportedly been seen and videotaped in Siberia, offering irrefutable proof that the giant hairy prehistoric elephants — believed to have gone extinct thousands of years ago — still exist.

A 15-year-old German girl could not have a horse, so she trained one of her family’s cows to become a show jumper. Luna the cow has come to navigate the pasture with equine ease.

Pandas play in snow at Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Southwest China’s Sichuan province. Heavy snowfall hit the area on Tuesday, disrupting the water and power supply at the research center. Photos tanken Jan 17, 2011 by Li Wei, a staff member at Wolong Panda Club, in Sichuan.