POLECATS aren't cats but English weasels or American skunks. Bombay duck is a type of fish, and the geoduck a clam. Glass snakes or horned toads are both lizards, while velvet ants are wasps.

PHOSPHORESCENCE is caused by materials in the bodies of microscopic marine organisms known as dinoflagellates. They glow when they are disturbed or attacked and, if there are enough of them about, can be made to fire up just by sweeping your hand through the water.

The Lost World is an abyss decorated with glow-worms and ferns - accessed from above. Louise Southerden drops in for a stickybeak.

IT'S A cliche but a good one. Nothing can describe the glow-worms on the cave walls and ceiling above the underground river as clearly as by saying they look like constellations of stars. Yet the Milky Way never looked this bright on its best night, nor this massive and..read more

1 UNDERGROUND river caving. A two-to-three-hour adventure at Mount Buffalo that takes you through an underground cave system. Crawl through water-filled tunnels and caverns, see glow worms and crawl up miniature waterfalls. Tel. Adventure Guides Australia 5728 1804. 2 FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE sunset tou