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 cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
Meet the world's most lifelike Disney princess - a 21-year-old man from California .
SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
A psychology student from California looks so much like Game of Thrones' Jon Snow that he is mobbed by fans of the fantasy show .
A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .