The broader area in darker green (now covered by ocean) represents the Bering land bridge near the end of the last glacial maximum, a period that lasted from 28,000 to 18,000 years ago when sea ...
Scientists thought the Bering Land Bridge mirrored the dry grassy plains found in the nearby Siberian steppe ecosystem. But new research, employing a vessel's sonar and coring technology ...
A new study could explain why some ancient animals, like mammoths, crossed the Bering Land Bridge to North America during the last Ice Age while others, like woolly rhinos, stayed put in Eurasia.