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 the drying banks of the Mississippi river. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...