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 rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
