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.
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 PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .