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..
NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
Say cheese! This cheeky chappy isn’t in the mood to live up to his scary reputation as he is pictured here cracking a killer smile as he goes about his daily business .
A Canadian woman who is obsessed with all things mythical has had her ears cut and shaped to look like an ELF .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .