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..
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .