A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis. As the green praying mantis lifts its body and prepares for battles, the amber bug simply stares into the face of the much larger rival. Photographer Monica Anantyowati captured the tense staredown in a garden close to her home in Malang, Indonesia.
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .