“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.

The largest extinct lion was the American cave lion and may have weighed up to 1,153 pounds! There are many types of lions ...

American lions were the largest big cat on the continent — until they went extinct 11,000 years ago, according to the National Park Service.. They were 8 feet long, 4 feet tall and could weigh ...

A closer look at lion evolution offers hope for saving the big cats. For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights ...

The panthera atrox, otherwise known as the large American lion, went extinct roughly 11,000 years ago. A fossil from an American lion was found in the Mississippi River. (Museum of Natural Science) ...

The American lion has been extinct for approximately 11,000 years. ... It's only the fourth fossil of the ancient American lion found in Mississippi, according to the news outlet.

“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.

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 ...