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Blood Falls

Blood Falls

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Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in a place with no light or free oxygen and little heat, and are essentially the definition of “primordial ooze.”

via Atlas Obscura – a collaborative compendium of amazing places that aren’t found in your average guidebook.

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