The extinct Barbary lion population of the lion ... this lion acquired its name from these discoveries. The American cave lion was depicted in cave paintings as lacking a mane or it being ...

“The extinct American Lion was first discovered in Natchez, Mississippi in the 1830s. No one knew that giant lions roamed North America until this famous Mississippi discovery,” she says.

Scientists descended into a deep cave, hoping to find Ice Age mammals’ remains. What they found stunned them: the remains of hundreds of big prehistoric mammals. The treasure trove was ...

and the extinct American lion. It's a compellingly dramatic scenario, but of all the theories around the dire wolf's extinction, this one holds the least water. The YDIH is a fringe theory that a ...

the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and into modern-day Alaska and the Yukon and was widely depicted in prehistoric cave art. Meanwhile, the American lion, which was even ...

However, on January 22, the Eastern cougar subspecies was officially declared extinct in the U.S. and removed ... The words cougar, puma, mountain lion, and catamount all refer to the same large ...

Previously, DeSantis and others found that the dental wear patterns of the extinct American lions closely resembled those of modern cheetahs, which are extremely finicky eaters that mostly consume ...

and the American lion," Lyons said. "The evidence for why all these species went extinct points strongly toward humans." Prewitt's discovery was formally identified by experts at the Mississippi ...

when there was also a prehistoric cat called the American lion. The study examined size differences between sexes of these large felines using clues from bones and teeth. The researchers report ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

The mountain lion, extinct in the eastern United States as ... located in the middle of the state, was from a North American mountain lion. And more recently in Connecticut, a mountain lion ...