Recent evidence has emerged that challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of the first Americans. Instead of walking ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. During the last ice age, the Bering Strait (shown here) became the Bering Land Bridge due to ...

Until now, researchers had only uncovered a few tantalizing hints that humans had reached the American continent by this time ...

Nov. 3, 2015 — ANCHORAGE — Woolly mammoths and other large ice age mammals thrived in northern Alaska until environmental changes turned grasslands into peat and rising sea levels submerged the Bering ...

The Bering Land Bridge that once connected Asia and Alaska may have emerged much later during the last ice age than previously thought, narrowing the window of time during which humans could have ...