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. The dedicated dad takes a break from eating as he carries the eggs until they hatch, while the female continues her routine as normal. The nocturnal male cardinalfish appears to glow in the darkness as it proudly displays his brood. The stunning photographs were captured by 39-year-old photographer Marcello Di Francesco while on a trip around the Philippine Islands.
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
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 .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .