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..
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
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 .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
Whenever 46-year-old Melo Masi steps out of his front door in Berkshire, he risks being mobbed by strangers desperate for a selfie - all because of his incredible likeness to Hollywood megastar, Johnny Depp .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .