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…
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
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COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
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A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
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DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .