With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet. These mesmorising pictures, however, capture the beautiful variety of fungi here on Earth. The incredible images were taken by Australian photographer Stephen Axford, 62, after he became familiar with the importance of fungi in everyday life, and decided to document it twelve years ago..
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .