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 soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
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With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
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