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..
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
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GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .