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..
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
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While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
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With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
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An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .