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..
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
