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..
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .