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..
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It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
