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..
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
PERCHING on the edge of a flower, these loved-up caterpillars can't resist each other as they enjoy a romantic moment together .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .