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..
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .