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..
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A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
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A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .
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GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
A grandma who lost almost 12 stone after undergoing a gastric bypass has revealed that she now gets chatted up by men half her age .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
CCTV shows a dark figure dumping the dog- A pet dog suffering with cancer has been put down after being dumped at an animal rescue in what officials said is the worst abandonment of any animal they have witnessed .