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..
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .