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..
This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .
FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .
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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 .
Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror .
N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .