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 .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
WITH the mystical clouds forming a thick blanket and the electrifying lights below, these stunning pictures provide a unique view of the cityscape of Dubai taken from the tallest building in the world .
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 least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .