The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a grant to study what the Bering Land Bridge, a prehistoric path between Asia and North America, looked like thousands of years ago.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a grant to study what the Bering Land Bridge, a prehistoric path between Asia and North America, looked like thousands of years ago.
“There’s a lot we don’t know about the Bering Land Bridge,” said Sarah Fowell, Professor in the UAF Department of Geosciences. Now a research team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks is going out to the Bering Sea to learn more about the area’s environment at the time. Fowell pondered, “What was it like out there? What was growing there? We know the whole thing wasn’t ice-covered. Animals crossed but they also lived there.”
From there, researchers hope to find out what the climate was like. “It might also help us answer the question why some animals crossed and others did not.”
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