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…
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .