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 their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
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 .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
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 .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .