PBS Eons: How the Tibetan Plateau Created the Ultimate Cat

PBS Eons has a new video. This one is about the evolution and migration of Homotherium, a large saber-tooted cat that lived on the Tibetan Plateau.

How did Homotherium evolve to be so successful, and so different from basically all other cats, living and extinct?

Well the answer may lie in a huge geological event: the rise of the Tibetan plateau.

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