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..
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
