In the early 1960s, ecologist Paul Martin of the University of Arizona postulated that the first Americans, after crossing into the Americas over the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the megafauna to ...

Around 30,000 years ago, the Paleo-Indians, ancestors of Native Americans, crossed the Beringia land bridge ... North America was a vast, untouched wilderness, ruled by strange megafauna ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

Diving for fossil evidence of extinct megafauna. ... However, around 2.7 million years ago, the formation of the Panamanian land bridge facilitated a pivotal event: ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a period of substantial habitat change.

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 like ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.

Why had the megafauna survived earlier periods of warming, ... researchers were discovering some crucial clues about how humans had spread from Asia across the Bering Land Bridge into North America.

Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge may have been less an arid steppe grassland and more a boggy ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers.

Researchers and crew members pose beside the University of Alaska Fairbanks research ship Sikuliaq in Dutch Harbor during a 2023 cruise to the Bering Sea to learn more about the Bering Land Bridge.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.

Cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula are time capsules preserving remnants of Maya culture and fossils of extinct megafauna Martin Broen - Freelance writer The underwater caves of the Yucatán ...