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If they saw this happen, then it happens far more often than once in a billion years.
The article says it's been in-progress for the last 100 million years, so "once in a billion years" is really like a 1:10 chance. Gotta get those clicks though.
That's fair. I expect there are quite a few examples of this happening in various places we are yet to discover.
Some thrive, some die out, but it seems to be a normal evolution of life.