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..
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
This brave Hyena finally catches his pray among the thousands of flamingos, Lake Nakuru, Kenya - OUTNUMBERED among thousands of flamingos, this bold hyena is not put off from hunting for a morning snack .
A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .
RESTING his weary head on his flipper, this little seal pup takes a much needed nap after an afternoon of strenuous yoga .
A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .