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..
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .