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.
The Mississippi River is a vital transportation route, and its unusually low water levels disrupted shipping across several states in recent months.
Some locations along the river reported their lowest water levels in 10 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in itsReceding water levels exposed long-submerged items The fossil is the latest remnant of the past unearthed by the Mississippi River drought. In early October, low water levels revealed anArchaeologists believe the remains are from a ferry that sunk in the late 19th or early 20th century after it was damaged in a storm,Though this was the first time the ship has been fully exposed, small parts of the vessel emerged from low waters in the 1990s.
"At that time the vessel was completely full of mud and there was mud all around it so only the very tip tops of the sides were visible," Chip McGimsey, Louisiana's state archaeologist, told the AP when the shipwreck emerged in October. "They had to move a lot of dirt just to get some narrow windows in to see bits and pieces," McGimsey said., rising global temperatures due to burning of fossil fuels enhance evaporation, making droughts more severe.
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