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..
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
