See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The fossilized tooth of an ancient American Lion has been discovered on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say the fossilized jaw, pictured during an event in late October, belonged to an American lion that roamed Mississippi ...

A Mississippi man was recently searching for fossils whe he came across the jaw of an American lion, one of the largest cats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...