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 PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
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A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
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A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .