Speared Marlin Means Business as it Spots its Lunch and Goes Straight for the Kill!!!
A stunning photograph captures the moment a striped marlin spotted its lunch and went straight for the kill - spearing a helpless sardine with its huge, needle-like snout.

Swimming in the waters off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, the carnivorous fish attacked a large shoal, forcing them to scatter and leaving a handful of weaker sardines isolated and vulnerable.

It was then able swoop again, using its spear-like snout to puncture a hole in the side of a prone sardine at a speed of 50mph, before using its small, file-like teeth to finish off the dying fish.

The incredible underwater photographs were taken by American wildlife photographer Doug Perrine, who was free diving off the Mexican coast when he spotted the striped marlin hunting

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