A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish. Swimming through the water, the striking predator spots a prone sardine and goes straight for the kill. The brilliant underwater photographs were captured off the tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico by American wildlife photographer Doug Perrine. The 62-year-old, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, says: ‘The striped marlins have broken these sardines off from a giant shoal deep below, and forced them upwards to trap them against the surface of the water…
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
RESTING his weary head on his flipper, this little seal pup takes a much needed nap after an afternoon of strenuous yoga .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .