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.
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
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 .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
