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..
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .