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…
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
WE’RE all familiar with the heart-wrenching pictures of dogs abandoned in animal shelters, but one photographer has found an innovative way of showcasing the pooch’s personality .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .
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 .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .