The Bering land bridge that spanned between Siberia and Alaska during the Ice Age was more of a Bering land bog, new research finds. The discovery could help explain why some animals, such as ...

The National Science Foundation has extended their operational agreement for the research vessel Sikuliaq with the University ...

Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted ...

It envisions that the founding population moved across the Bering Land Bridge, traveled down the Ice-free Corridor between the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets, and expanded into what is now ...

During the last Ice Age, modern-day Alaska and Siberia were connected by a landmass called the Bering Land Bridge, now underwater. Scholars widely agree that some of the first people in the ...

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 ...

"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.

Recently analyzed fossils finally confirm a longtime paleontological theory: Flying squirrels the size of domesticated cats glided across the Bering Land Bridge roughly 5 million years ago.

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan ...