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..
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
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 .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .