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..
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
CCTV shows a dark figure dumping the dog- A pet dog suffering with cancer has been put down after being dumped at an animal rescue in what officials said is the worst abandonment of any animal they have witnessed .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .