There's no one like you, and there never will be.

From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody.

There are many legends, but there is only one.

Michael in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, April 22.

The For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Kendra Pier Lewis, in for Rachel Feldman.

The year is 1998. Brandy and Monica's hit song The Boy Is Mine is all over the radio. The movie There's Something About Mary is doing solid numbers at the box office. And right around Labor Day, the first episode of a Japanese animated television series centered on a 10-year-old boy named Ash Ketchum,

and his quest to become a master of taxonomy, debuts in the U.S.

Wait, is that not how you remember the plot of Pokemon?

I want to be the very best like no one ever was.

It's easy to think of Pokemon, the TV series, video games, and trading cards.

It's just child's play.

But for some young people, the franchise can be a gateway into scientific understanding.

We sat down with two scientists who were Pokemon fans as children.

Arjun Mann, the assistant curator of

fossil fishes and early tetrapods at Chicago's Field Museum, and Spencer Mocton, an entomologist

at the University of Guelph's Center for Biodiversity Genomics in Canada.

They both credit their scientific careers in part with their past Pokemon fascination.

As adults, Spencer named an insect after a

Pokemon character, and Arjun has co-cureated an upcoming Pokemon-themed exhibition at the Field Museum.

We spoke to them about the relationship between Pokemon and science, and how it goes both ways.

Pokemon influences science, and science influences Pokemon. Thanks for taking the

time to join us today. Thank you. Yeah, happy to join you. I have a very difficult first question for both

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