Scientists believe that the Bering Land Bridge emerged at a moment when cooler temperatures caused much of the planet's seawater to become locked up in ice. They estimate that sea levels during ...

A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea. Today this frigid strait ... when the oceans were dramatically lower a land bridge tied the two continents together — allowing ...

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 ...

Though few people travel here today, archaeologists believe that ancient populations migrated from Russia into the Americas across this stretch of land during the Ice Age 10,000-12,000 years ago when ...