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 ...

We, NOAA Fisheries, issue this final rule to designate critical habitat for the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies Erignathus barbatus nauticus under the ...

During the last ice age, an enormous stretch of fertile grassland connected Eurasia and the Americas. Known today as Beringia, this lost landscape was home to a small but important population of ...

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 ...

Authors Joseph A. Cook, Eric P. Hoberg, Anson V. Koehler, Heikki Henttonen, Lotta Wickstrom, Voitto Haukisalmi, Kurt E. Galbreath, Felix Chernyavski, Nikolai ...

Russia and Alaska's current coastlines (the dashed black lines), compared to ancient Beringia (shown in green), the land bridge that brought humans to North America. Image via William Manley, ...

Once a species is listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), NOAA Fisheries is required to designate critical habitat for that species to the maximum extent prudent and determinable. Critical ...

Extinction of the woolly mammoth in Beringia has long been subject to research and speculation. Here we use a new geo-referenced database of radiocarbon-dated evidence to show that mammoths were ...

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