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..
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .