Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reported

As the most extreme drought period in more than 10,000 years ravaged California from 2012 to 2015, many wildflowers died.

But in a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers documented how one flower survived the hard times without rain.

Their findings show rare evidence of “evolutionary rescue” — a phenomenon whereby a species rapidly evolves to survive — outside the lab and amid climate change.