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…
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
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A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
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HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
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BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .