During the Previous Ice Age, the Bering Land Bridge Formed Surprisingly Late

Scientists have reconstructed the sea level history of the Bering Strait and discovered that it was flooded up until around 35,700 years ago, just before humans migrated into the Americas.

The Bering Land Bridge, which connects Asia to North America, did not appear until roughly 35,700 years ago, or fewer than 10,000 years before the peak of the last ice age, according to a recent study that reconstructs the history of water level at the Bering Strait (known as the Last Glacial Maximum or LGM). The new research, which was released in Proc…