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..
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .