Story time:
Hello there I hear you've become interested in my current study of venusaur. Allow me to explain my goal. I desire to understand the way venusaur speads it's pollen stored in the flower on it's back.
To do this i obtained a bulbasaur and placed a golden powder inside the bulb on its back and coated the outside in a slightly different shade of green and then released it into the wild. I used a different coat of green on the outside the outside to ensure that i would be able to distinguish it from the other bulbasaur but not different enough to prevent it from properly fitting in the natural world.
I thought that i would have to recover the bulbasaur after evolution and recoat the outside, but curiously instead of becoming blue it retained the shade of green i had coated it with and its flower became the same gold of the coloring i had intended to alter the pollen. After seeing this i decided i would no longer be researching the pollen but rather the effects and changes due to my added coloring.
After enough research i have come to the conclusion that just as the magikarp forced to evolve by team rocket the bulbasaur had altered it's color pattern without altering any of it's battle stats nor it's attractiveness to potential mates among the other bulbasaur and it seems that it has slowly worked its genetics into the community and though rare they have begun to occur naturally.
The research "recovered" from team rocket about the gyarados' change suggests that these two pokemon as well as other pokemon with alternative coloring be called "shiny" and though i do not see the logic behind this name i have attempted to make use of it in honor of the scientist who first discovered this curiosity in the pokemon world and his wishes.
This is the conclusion of my current research but if i discover more about "shiny pokemon" you will hear from me again.
Sincerely, Colress
Data log shiny bulbasaur.