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..
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .