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…
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
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HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .