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.

Scientists thought the Bering Land Bridge mirrored the dry grassy plains found in the nearby Siberian steppe ecosystem. But ...

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 ...

We associate animals with the places where they originate, but sometimes it’s their new homes where they really thrive.

Back then, the area was a cold, dry grassland that extended across the Bering land bridge into Siberia, and all the way to western Europe. Paleontologists call this vast region the “mammoth ...

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

some anthropologists had hypothesized that the lineage’s ancestors populated the Americas in a wave of migration that was distinct from Siberians crossing the Bering land bridge some 20,000 years ...