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..
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
Clinging on to their furry backs, mischievous monkeys appeared to enjoy the free transport as they rode around on a perturbed Capybara .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .