Researchers and crew members pose beside the University of Alaska Fairbanks research ship Sikuliaq in Dutch Harbor during a 2023 cruise to the Bering Sea to learn more about the Bering Land Bridge.

Ultimately, the geologists suggest that the Bering Land Bridge may have looked more like the modern-day Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska than its arid steppe grassland.

The land bridge, now submerged under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, was above water from about 36,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago.

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 ...

Scientists have long assumed the Bering Land Bridge was a dry, grassy tundra. ... Last year, a team of researchers led by ...

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 ...

A new study shows that the Bering Land Bridge, the strip of land that once connected Asia to Alaska, emerged far later during the last ice age than previously thought. The unexpected findings shorten ...

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, ...

Researchers and crew members pose beside the University of Alaska Fairbanks research ship Sikuliaq in Dutch Harbor during a 2023 cruise to the Bering Sea to learn more about the Bering Land Bridge.

The land bridge, now submerged under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, was above water from about 36,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago.Scientists thought it might have looked a lot like ...