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…
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
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 .