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..
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
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 .
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WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .