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..
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
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 .
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SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .