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Never-seen-before bacteria eating away Titanic wreck

TORONTO: A newly discovered rust-eating bacteria is munching away the wreckage of the Titanic,a team of scientists. Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax,Canada,have been examining the bacteria eating away the remains of the ship as it sits on the Atlantic Ocean floor. Using DNA technology,Dalhousie scientists Henrietta Mann and Bhavleen Kaur and researchers from the University of Sevilla in Spain were able to identify a new bacterial species Halomonas titanicae collected from rusticles from the Titanic,MSNBC reported.