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The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp https://gizmodo.com/the-famous-bering-land-bridge-was-more-like-a-swamp-geologists-say-2000539043
"#Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the #BeringLandBridge between modern-day #Siberia and #Alaska may have been less an arid steppe #grassland and more a boggy #ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers. This complicates #scientists’ understanding of the landmass and how its #landscape would have facilitated or impeded the spread of different species"
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Beringia was 10 thousand years younger than originally believed, apparently -- and people started living there right away.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/bering-land-bridge-formed-much-later-than-originally-thought-study-suggests/ar-AA15WnlJ
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#BeringLandBridge formed surprisingly late during last #IceAge https://phys.org/news/2022-12-bering-bridge-late-ice-age.html
The #BeringStrait was flooded 10,000 years before the Last Glacial Maximum https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206742119
The Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less than 10,000 years before the height of the last ice age. Growth of the ice sheets—and the resulting drop in sea level—occurred surprisingly quickly and much later than previous studies had suggested.