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 ...

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 ...