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 ...

The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The ...

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 ...

Watch Mapping the World Latin America: Under the Radar? 13 min Watch the programme The Bering Strait is the closest point of contact between Russia and the United States. It separates Chukotka, an ...

At that level, an area of "dry" land as wide as 1,000km would have stretched from Asia to North America across what is now the Bering Strait. Today, some islands — St. Lawrence Island ...