Chinese scientists love Blackpink’s Jennie so much they named a fish after her

A popular K-pop star has found an unlikely place in the scientific record after researchers in China named a newly discovered fish species after her.
Jennie Ruby Jane, from Blackpink, was “a constant source of inspiration” for the master’s student who discovered the tiny black-and-yellow fish – shorter than an average human fingernail – near southern China’s Pearl River estuary.
The fish, named Brachygobius jennie, is the first bumblebee goby found in China and could provide a model for studying...