The fossilized tooth of an ancient American Lion has been discovered on the drying banks of the Mississippi river. The animal hasn't been seen on American soil since the last Ice Age and finds of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

It was first discovered in Mississippi; a single jawbone of an extinct cat larger than an African lion and an apex predator that lived thousands of years ago. It became known as the American lion and ...

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 ...