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..
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .