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..
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
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 .
THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .