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..
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
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 host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .