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..
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .