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.

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 ...

The Bering Strait Land Bridge It is widely thought to have been a narrow neck of land over which man first came to America. Actually it was 1,300 miles wide and was traveled by large numbers of ...

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 ...

It says that the first Americans were the Clovis people—named for an archeological site located near Clovis, New Mexico—and that they walked across the Bering Land Bridge and spread into what ...