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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...