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..
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
A puppy bit off more than he could chew when he stole a six inch Chinese spare rib from his owner and swallowed it WHOLE, Cheeky Staffordshire bull terrier Rossi had his life SPARED when he underwent a life-saving operation to remove the bone from his stomach after swiping part of the takeaway meal .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .