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..
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .