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…
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
With stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, Iceland’s rural beauty is inescapable – especially for Hollywood .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
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STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
An adorable black bear cub struggles to find the perfect spot for an afternoon nap as he wriggles around on the branch of a maple tree .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
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WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
