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..
SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .