Just how easy was it for plants and animals to travel from Russia to Alaska or vice versa in the past? It may surprise you, but travel between Asia and North America was quite easy for prehistoric ...

The ancestors of Native Americans came to the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. But there’s a rather glaring 10,000 year gap in the story — one that could be explained ...

A bowhead whale may live 200 years. Dark and rotund, it can live across multiple human generations, time enough for nations to rise and fall, for worlds to end and begin. Time enough for the whale to ...

A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder bolsters the theory that the first Americans, who are believed to have come over from northeast Asia during the last ice age, may have been ...

You might have missed it, but the ancient land of Beringia has gotten some extra protection from superpowers Russia and the United States. That's right, Beringia -- 2,800 miles stretching from Siberia ...

BOULDER, COLORADO—A review of genetic evidence suggests that the Native American founding population lived in Beringia for thousands of years before migrating south into North America. And sediments ...

“The earth is faster now.” So Legraaghaq, a Yupik elder of the High Arctic, described retreating sea ice and melting permafrost. Born in Beringia, the region straddling the Bering Strait, Legraaghaq ...