Rust-eating bacteria living in Titanic's rusticles

I think scientists knew that the rusticles draping the Titanic wreck were caused by the slow digestion of the ship's iron by bacteria, but now they've isolated a new iron-consuming bacteria, with the musical name Halomonas titanicae.

New species of bacteria found in Titanic 'rusticles'

Link to the actual SCIENTIFIC article!

Halomonas titanicae sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from the RMS Titanic


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