Scientists have uncovered a link between a mysterious burst of red-stained water in Antarctica and a drop in the glacier sitting above it. The Blood Falls in Antarctica are a unique feature found at the nose of the Taylor Glacier, a large river of ice that flows through the McMurdo Dry Valleys of eastern Antarctica. The unusual phenomenon was first discovered in 1911 by Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica. “It is an iron-rich brine that