Exhibition About Sabre-toothed Cats

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This BBC video is called Scimitar Cat (Homotherium serum).

There will be an exhibition about sabre-toothed cats in the natural history museum in Leiden, the Netherlands.

It will be from 1 December till 6 January 2008.

Sabre-toothed cats arose several times during feline evolution. Not all species are closely related.

The exhibition is about Homotherium latidens. Until recently, scientists thought that species had become extinct 300,000 or 400,000 years ago.

However, in March 2000, a lower mandible was found in the North Sea. It was only 28,000 years old; so, it proved the older theory wrong. Then, during the Ice Age, the southern part of the North Sea was still land.