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..
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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 .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .