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…
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
CCTV shows a dark figure dumping the dog- A pet dog suffering with cancer has been put down after being dumped at an animal rescue in what officials said is the worst abandonment of any animal they have witnessed .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .