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..
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
A Hereford woman has lost 10st 3lbs after ditching her £260-a-month takeaway habit .
Britons have finally received some good news about the weather with temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees this weekend .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000 .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .