A tiny sloth that became stuck on the central reservation of a motorway and clung to the crash barrier for dear life, has tugged heartstrings around the world. It was spotted in the city of Quevedo, Ecuador, after becoming trapped by traffic passing on either side at high speed.
A grief stricken kangaroo cradles the head of a dead female next to her joey photographed by Evan Switzer on a bushland property in River Heads, Queensland, Australia