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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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Evidence of these Ice Age carnivores is extremely rare in the eastern U.S., but drought has revealed fossils of the American lion in the Mississippi. Thanks to a lack of rainfall in the Ohio and Upper ...