These Live Science folks are good about collecting articles on new species - living and prehistoric.
I'd heard of some of the recent ones, but I didn't know The Martian's botanist character Mark Watney was now the name of a new "bush tomato" plant from Australia!
Welcome Solanum watneyi. Co-discoverer Chris Martine explained that he appreciated The Martian for showing that "botanists can be cool, too!"
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