sea levels were so much lower that it was possible to walk on dry land across what is now the Bering Strait, creating an enormous region known as Beringia. Or at least it was assumed the land was dry.

New genetic evidence supports the hypothesis that the first people in the Americas all came from northeast Asia by crossing a land bridge known as Beringia. When sea levels rose after the last ice ...

A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea. Today this frigid strait separates North ... of Pleistocene bison from east and west Beringia suggesting there was only limited ...