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..
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .