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In the 1980s, a diamond mine in Orapa, 🇧🇼 began to yield gems of a different kind: of and , including , , , and . This (a site of exceptional ) records one of the most important transitions in the history of on land: the spread of and their with .

Photos from Rayner, 1993
journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.1052

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