A fragment of a fossilized jaw bone with a tooth was discovered, and experts believe it’s from a lion species that went extinct thousands of years ago.
An Oxford, Mississippi, resident came across the artifact when he saw something black sticking out of a sandbar in late October.
He thought it could be from the long-gone large American lion, and that was confirmed by experts at a nearby fossil and artifact symposium and exhibition. The panthera atrox, otherwise known as the large American lion, went extinct roughly 11,000 years ago.Experts say this lion was a larger version of the African lion by about 25%. It was about 4-feet tall, and 5- to 8-feet long.The American lion lived on the continent for more than 300,000 years during the ice age before extinction.Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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