Thursday, March 11, 2010

Blood-red Waterfall of Primordial Ooze

In Antarctica, there is a blood-red waterfall pouring down five stories from the Taylor Glacier.  The water comes from a lake in which an ecosystem of microbes was trapped by the glacier about 2 million years ago.  Since then, the organisms have evolved while sealed off from air, light, and most heat.  "Primordial ooze" as Atlas Obscura says.

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