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…
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .