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 ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .