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 osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
