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..
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
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 .
Pic By Graham Gibson/ HotSpot Media - SHARK HYPNOTIST BALANCES SHARK IN PALM OF HIS HAND- In Pic - Diver Tom and Caribbean reef sharks in the Bahamas- A SHARK hypnotist balances these predators in the palm of his hand by sending them to sleep with a gentle nose rub .
A woman has told how she saved the life of her own rapist after he overdosed on pills shortly after attacking her .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
THIS is the awesome moment an Osprey catches its prey travelling at 50mph, giving new meaning to FAST FOOD .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .