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…
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
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A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
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WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
