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..
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
OFFERING a glimpse into the past, a mash-up of old and new photographs show how the world’s biggest cities have changed .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .