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 BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .