> York groundsel, Senecio eboracensis, was discovered growing in the car park of York railway station in 1979 and was the first new species to have evolved in Britain for 50 years, thriving on railway sidings and derelict land.
Good science there, leaving absolutely no room for confusion. Good work, all round.
This is really cool, but doesn’t the fact there were still seeds of it mean it never really was actually “extinct”?
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> York groundsel, Senecio eboracensis, was discovered growing in the car park of York railway station in 1979 and was the first new species to have evolved in Britain for 50 years, thriving on railway sidings and derelict land.
Good science there, leaving absolutely no room for confusion. Good work, all round.
This is really cool, but doesn’t the fact there were still seeds of it mean it never really was actually “extinct”?