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..
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Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
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RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - WAVE-ING GOODBYE TO RUSH HOUR: WHILE most workers endure commuting chaos by road or rail everyday, one entrepreneur has come up with a novel way to get to the office - by KAYAK .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .