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..
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .