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 trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
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 .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
