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…
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
A support worker was stunned to discover she was eight months pregnant after she was rushed to hospital with 'stomach cramps' .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .