T he land bridge across the Bering Strait that lasted through much of the last Ice Age was likely very different from what has been imagined. Instead of a mix of grassland, tundra, and ice sheet ...

They estimate that sea levels during the last Ice Age were as much as 122m lower ... from Asia to North America across what is now the Bering Strait. Today, some islands — St. Lawrence Island ...

The ice extent in late winter can vary from 700 km south of the Bering Strait in a light ice year to 1,100 km in heavy ice years. Following the regime shift, there was a clear decrease in sea ice ...

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago ... the continents like the currently submerged connector across the Bering Strait between Asia and North America. The land bridges allow animals ...