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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.

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.

Low water levels have also stranded barge traffic and threatened drinking water

ROSEDALE, Miss. - A person walking along a newly exposed sandbar in a now-shallow portion of the Mississippi River stumbled upon a fossil from an animal that went extinct about 11,000 years ago.