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..
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
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 .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .