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…
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
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AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .