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..
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
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 .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .