Maybe it was a discovery hidden in the game somewhere. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo franchise whose Eevee-lution turned it into a worldwide phenomenon.
It kind of does look like an evil Pokéball (the red organisms inside are Pokemonas bacteria). Credit: Kenneth Dumack
Pokemonas belongs to the
Legionellales bacteria group, which developed mechanisms on exploiting other cells,” Dumack, who led a study recently published in
Frontiers in Microbiology, told SYFY WIRE. “So the benefits from living inside other cells are numerous; there are plenty of nutrients and a high supply of energy at all times. It is almost guaranteed that the bacteria will not starve.”