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..
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .