[RetiredArmyMajor]

Coyoteman wrote:

You mean... There’s something to that evolution stuff after all?

. . . . .

Absolutely. A bacterium morphed into a bacterium.

Again!

It just gets more exciting with every report.

[Coyoteman]

Absolutely. A bacterium morphed into a bacterium.

Again!

It just gets more exciting with every report.

Your comment would be more meaningful if "bacterium" was all one species, or even one genus. But that's not the case. Check out the following table:

The Phyla of Bacteria (as taken from Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 1st Ed.)

Name of Phylum	Number of Species	Number of Genera
Aquificae	27	12
Xenobacteria	29	11
Chrysogenetes	1	1
Thermomicrobia	13	6
Cyanobacteria	78	62
Chlorobia	17	6
Proteobacteria	1644	366
Firmicutes	2474	255
Planctomycetes etc.	13	5
Spirochaetes	92	13
Fibrobacter	5	3
Bacteroids	130	20
Flavobacteria	72	15
Sphingobacteria	76	22
Fusobacteria	29	6
Verrucomicrobia	5	2

As you can see there is a great deal of latitude for change within "bacterium" -- such that analyses like the one reported here can easily demonstrate speciation (macroevolution) while still dealing with "bacteria."

[count-your-change]

Here’s something to ponder: e.Coli, a bacteria with several varieties, divides about every 15 minutes. Now imagine how many generations that would be over the past hundred years.
Of course it’s been around much longer but this is a nice round figure. Back of an envelope calculation, A hundred years of e. Coli generations is like about a hundred million years of human generations.
And yet after all these millions of generations Mr. e. Coli is just a bacterium. I don’t think he’s ever going to be anything else.

[caveat emptor]

RetiredArmyMajor said: A bacterium morphed into a bacterium.

It sounds like you may have read the article.

From the article: Scientists studied 131 strains of Bacillus simplex and found that bacteria on different slopes have evolved differently, forming different 'ecotypes' of the same species .