However, it's still a mystery exactly when humans began crossing the land bridge. Genetic studies show that the first humans to cross became genetically isolated from people in East Asia between ...

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 once connected Russia to Alaska and was a crossing point for some of the first humans to populate the Americas.But during certain periods, the bridge was either impassable or ...

When the first bands of early humans made their intrepid journey into the Americas, they found plenty of room to spread out, according to a new study. Researchers who conducted a genetic analysis of ...

Scientists have long assumed the Bering Land Bridge was a dry, ... drier terrain to be found on the crossing. ... 24,789 people played the daily Crossword recently.

Genetic and environmental evidence indicates that after the ancestors of Native Americans left Asia, they spent 10,000 years on a land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska. Archaeological ...

The first people to enter the Americas may have taken the coastal route along the Bering Strait Land Bridge during these two periods. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Bering Land Bridge at the height of the last ice age. (Map by Nancy Bigelow) During the coldest days of the last ice age, the Bering Land Bridge was 1,000 miles wide, a belt buckle the size of ...

O'Rourke says cumulative evidence indicates the ancestors of Native Americans lived on the Bering land bridge "in the neighborhood of 10,000 years," from roughly 25,000 years ago until they ...

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 ...

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.