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.
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
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