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..
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
15-foot-long great white sharks on the hunt, in False Bay, South Africa - SHOCK and awe pictures of 15-foot-long great whites on the hunt will leave you stunned .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .