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..
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
