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..
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
PUCKERING up and enjoying some quality time, these are the most lovable monkeys on the planet .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .