The caves of Waitomo, an extensive network of 80 different caverns located under a small town on New Zealand’s North Island, were first explored in 1887 by a tribal chief of Maori peoples native to ...

Researchers have been getting their feet wet on the hunt for fishy invaders under the twinkle of Waitomo Caves’ glowworms. The renowned tourist attraction hosts thousands of visitors per year, but not ...

Middle-earth, aka Hobbiton, isn’t the only place in New Zealand where you can feel like you’ve stepped into another realm. The Waitomo Caves are on New Zealand’s North Island, about 220 km (137 miles) ...

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 ...

The Waitomo Caves have taken aeons to form; it takes a century for one cubic centimetre of rock to form. A visit to Waitomo has long been on our family's holiday "to do" list, something we'd usually ...

Digital travellers can now explore the depths of Waitomo's Ruakuri Cave through Google street view. It's the first New Zealand Cave to be added to Google Maps, with 360 panorama images showing off its ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...