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…
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UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
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A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
