A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs. The feisty ants, all desperately trying to keep hold of their dinner, are eventually joined by a small colony of weaver ants as they all bid to take the prize home. The struggle over the horse fly was photographed in Tiruvalla, Kerala, India in the back garden of Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai. The 39-year-old Indian neurosurgeon says: “There is a huge teak tree leaning over my terrace which hosts millions of weaver ants.
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .