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..
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .