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By Jack Darrell
June 26, 2023
During the infamous Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica in 1911, British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor made a mysterious discovery at the rocky base of the glacier that now bears his name: a waterfall of what appeared to be blood.
Discharged from beneath the ice at the glacier’s tongue, the water emerges clear but then quickly turns crimson. For more than a century, this phenomenon that Taylor dubbed “Blood Falls” has captured people’s imaginations and remained a scientific mystery—until now.