Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s New Zealand in 1887. Two men push an unsteady raft into a stream, just where it vanishes into a rift in the Earth. Opaque ...

When you hear a name like Waitomo Glowworm Caves, how can you not be interested? It sounds too good to be true, but it’s real. The Waitomo caves, at least most of them, are filled with beautiful ...

Among the most enchanting wonders in the natural world, the Waitomo Glowworm Caves are hidden beneath the rolling hills of the Waikato region in New Zealand. These subterranean chambers, carved over ...

The ancient caves in the village of Waitomo were first explored more than a century ago, by a Maori chief and a surveyor. Today, visitors can take a boat tour of the caverns’ lower level. Many of the ...

The glowworm is the larval stage of a fungus gnat found only in New Zealand. Through a chemical reaction between luciferin and the enzyme luciferase, it produces cold blue-green light. This ...