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..
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .
A mum-of-two has revealed how she accidentally set her face on fire while lighting a cigarette .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
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FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
A woman left disfigured and traumatised by an addiction to lip filler injections has issued a warning to others searching for the perfect pout after the plastic chemicals nearly killed her .