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..
WELCOME to the 125 decibel boombox bus that could damage your hearing if you party too close to its giant speakers .
WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .
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 .
A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
An adorable baby girl was born with a heart-shaped birthmark on her forehead - after being conceived on Valentine's Day .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .