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Antarctica has a waterfall that appears to bleed. 🩸
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Creepy DiscoveriesSep 04, 2026

Antarctica has a waterfall that appears to bleed. 🩸

Antarctica has a waterfall that appears to bleed. 🩸 . . . Blood Falls spills from Taylor Glacier after traveling beneath roughly 400 meters of ice. Its isolated, iron-rich brine has persisted for at least 1.5 million years, supporting microbes without sunlight. When that clear dissolved iron meets oxygen, the water rusts red—the glacier creates its own bloodstain.

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Journal of Glaciology, 2017, 'Englacial hydrologic system of Blood Falls, Taylor Glacier, Antarctica'

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