Slashme kinkyturnip
They did an article on something old, aka synthetic diamonds. That required a 'hook' to be interesting. Elephants in ballerina shoes conjures up an image in journalists minds that makes it article worthy.
Given the subjective size of the tip of a ballerina's shoe, why did they choose 640??
640 elephants should be enough elephants for anyone!
Almost as if the entire thing was designed as click bait to promote synthetic diamonds.
First wikipedia date for synthetic diamonds is 2008, by Slashme, with kinkyturnip adding more detail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic_diamond&dir=prev&limit=500&action=history
Biting the hand that feeds IT
