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Locals are discovering all kinds of weird things preserved in the mud of a drought-stricken Mississippi River, including a fossil lion's tooth

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.

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.

American lions became extinct about 10,000 years ago, but not before the arrival of Mississippis earliest known human inhabitants.

Thousands of missing artifacts back at Mississippi museum by Tim Kalich, The Greenwood Commonwealth, The Associated Press Posted Dec 19, 2020 12:02 am EDT Last Updated Dec 19, 2020 at 12:12 am EDT GREENWOOD, Miss. — They’re back. Or at least most of them are. Thousands of artifacts missing from the Museum of the Mississippi Delta’s most prized archeological collection have been returned. The largest recovery occurred Thursday when two officials from the Mississippi Department of Archives ...

Tim Kalich, The Greenwood Commonwealth December 18, 2020 - 9:02 PM GREENWOOD, Miss. - They’re back. Or at least most of them are. Thousands of artifacts missing from the Museum of the Mississippi Delta’s most prized archeological collection have been returned. The largest recovery occurred Thursday when two officials from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History returned 37 boxes of artifacts — stone tools, pottery pieces, petrified wood and ...