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Barges stranded by low water in the Mississippi River in Rosedale, Mississippi, a small town near where the lion fossil was found Scott Olson / Getty Images While exploring a newly exposed sandbar in ...

At the end of October, a Mississippi resident made a rare discovery along the drought-stricken Mississippi River — a fossilized jawbone from an American lion that roamed the area roughly 11,000 years ...

Historically low water levels on the Mississippi River are being credited with exposing one of the rarest Ice Age fossils ever found east of the river: the jaw of a monstrous American lion. Wiley ...

Ongoing drought along the Mississippi River has revealed several previously sunken treasures, a list that now includes a jaw fragment from an ancient lion species that went extinct thousands of years ...

A rare, fossilized jaw of an extinct American lion was recently discovered in a Mississippi creek. American lions were up to a third larger than modern African lions, weighing over 700 pounds. The ...

(CNN) – An unexpected discovery in the drought-stricken Mississippi river has paleontologists excited. A fragment of a fossilized jaw bone with a tooth was discovered, and experts believe it’s from a ...

Wiley Prewitt of Oxford, Mississippi, was searching an exposed sandbar in the Mississippi River, when he saw something with teeth sticking out of the gravel and mud. It was a fossilized American lion ...

The African lion is sometimes called "The King of the Jungle." Why they're called that is a bit puzzling because they don't live in jungles. Nonetheless, their agility, power and size make them one of ...