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..
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .