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 ...

Researchers say the fossilized jaw, pictured during an event in late October, belonged to an American lion that roamed Mississippi some 11,000 years ago.Anna Reginelli A local found a jaw fragment ...

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 ...

[I'm out in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for some late season fieldwork this week. Here's an essay from the archive, originally posted on October 24, 2011.] The Page Museum at the La ...

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 ...