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 pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .