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 SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
Enjoying life’s little pleasures is something that many struggle to do .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
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 .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .