Blood Falls gushes red water from Antarctica's ice. It took scientists 106 years to figure out what causes its color.

The phenomenon was first discovered by geologist Griffith Taylor in 1911.

Antarctica's Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney on November 26, 2006.is a waterfall of vibrant red water that oozes out of Antarctica's Taylor Glacier.

The falls are home to microbes that canA large glacier in Antarctica produces a bright red river that oozes out of the ice, aptly named Blood Falls. Why the reddish water pours out of Antarctica's Taylor Glacier and into Lake Bonney puzzled scientists for decades. At the time, he thought that red algae living in the water was responsible for the water's striking red hue.

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