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…
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
A group of shelter dogs showcase their loveable personalities in a series of passport-style photographs - in the hope of finding their forever homes .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
