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..
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
