Previously Undiscovered Virus Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

Miles beneath the ocean, scientists have made an unusual discovery: a new virus.

Fortunately, it’s not a horror from the deep. The virus, which researchers recovered from sediment within the Mariana Trench, poses no danger to human. Rather, the virus is a bacteriophage—Latin for “bacteria eater”—and does exactly what its name suggests. Specifically, this new bacteriophage appears to attack bacteria in the family Halomas, which is found in salt water.

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