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A rare find of jawbone fossil belonging to an American lion that roamed the earth 11,000 years ago was found by a man who was on a walk along the exposed sandbar in the Mississippi River.
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 ago, according to McClatchy News.
A drought-stricken river led to one the biggest discoveries in the Paleontological world: A fossilized jawbone of an American lion, one that roamed 340,000 years ago.