{"id":888895,"date":"2026-06-24T06:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/888895\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:43:20","slug":"chinese-scientists-love-blackpinks-jennie-so-much-they-named-a-fish-after-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/888895\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists love Blackpink\u2019s Jennie so much they named a fish after her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular K-pop star has found an unlikely place in the scientific record after <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">researchers<\/a> in China named a newly discovered fish species after her.Jennie Ruby Jane, from <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/blackpink?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blackpink<\/a>, was \u201ca constant source of inspiration\u201d for the master\u2019s student who discovered the tiny black-and-yellow fish \u2013 shorter than an average human fingernail \u2013 near southern China\u2019s Pearl River estuary.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The fish, named Brachygobius jennie, is the first bumblebee goby found in China and could provide a model for studying the biological limits of vertebrate miniaturisation, according to a paper published last week by the peer-reviewed journal Zoosystematics and Evolution.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tian Jiangyan, who discovered the fish and also led the study, said listening to Jennie\u2019s songs had inspired her during her studies. Naming the species after the singer was her way of acknowledging Jennie\u2019s \u201cpositive influence\u201d on her work.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Tian spotted the tiny fish during fieldwork in mangrove wetlands near the Pearl River estuary in April 2025, she initially thought they were babies, but their markings did not match any species known from the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Brachygobius jennie, or Jennie\u2019s Bumblebee Goby, is a tiny black-and-yellow fish shorter than an average human fingernail. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cb67b564-b55c-4e12-aa96-90a7f8373f3a_36aa02b4.jpg\" title=\"The Brachygobius jennie, or Jennie\u2019s Bumblebee Goby, is a tiny black-and-yellow fish shorter than an average human fingernail. Photo: Handout\"\/>The Brachygobius jennie, or Jennie\u2019s Bumblebee Goby, is a tiny black-and-yellow fish shorter than an average human fingernail. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Back in the lab, Tian and her colleagues from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and their collaborators took a closer look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular K-pop star has found an unlikely place in the scientific record after researchers in China named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":888896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[4862,360467,74,171,22705,89089,360468,6467,29455,8372,975,55762,276250,56261,4887,129814,11843,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-888895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-blackpink","tag-brachygobius-jennie","tag-china","tag-entertainment","tag-guangzhou","tag-jennie","tag-jennie-ruby-jane","tag-k-pop","tag-lisa","tag-malaysia","tag-music","tag-myanmar","tag-pearl-river","tag-south-korean","tag-stray-kids","tag-sun-yat-sen-university","tag-thailand","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116803733678198344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}