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.
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .