During the last ice age, people journeyed across the ancient land bridge connecting Asia to North America. That land is now submerged underwater, but a newly created digital map reveals how the ...

A new study that reconstructs the history of sea levels shows that the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, allowing humans to arrive ...

The Bering land bridge was exposed at various times over an almost three million year period, when wide scale glaciation lowered sea levels by as much as 150 me Monday, June 30, 2025 Eye on the Arctic ...

A map showing how Beringia, which includes the famous ice age land bridge, looked at the last glacial maximum, about 18,000 years ago. (Image credit: Bond, J.D. 2019. Paleodrainage map of Beringia.

This map illustrates the geography of Beringia, the land bridge that formed between North America and Asia during the last glaciation. Humans crossed Beringia from Asia to North America during the ...

The ancestors of Native Americans came to the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. But there’s a rather glaring 10,000 year gap in the story — one that could be ...

Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge may have been less an arid steppe grassland and more a boggy ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers.

The Bering Land Bridge's boggy environs were revealed by a research cruise aboard the R/V Sikuliaq, an over 260-foot ...

This newly designed map shows how Beringia — which includes the famous ice age land bridge — looked about 18,000 years ago. (Image credit: Bond, J.D. 2019. Paleodrainage map of Beringia.

The Bering Land Bridge's boggy environs were revealed by a research cruise aboard the R/V Sikuliaq, an over 260-foot oceanographic vessel operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.The ...