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 proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
