At its maximum, the ice covered nearly six million square miles. And in places, it was up to two miles thick. The ice blanket was punctuated only by occasional islands of rock, the peaks of the very highest mountains. Though Beringia itself remained...
The fact that both horses and mammoths were here suggests these forests werent. It seems that, 14,000 years ago, Beringia was a huge expanse of open grassland. This unique habitat of cold, dry grasslands is known as mammoths steppe. But thats not how...
This is Alaska today, a wetland of forests, boggy tundra, lakes and rivers rivers that still churn out fresh clues to the Ice Age past. This is a brick-sized tooth, and it belong to a woolly mammoth. Its narrow ridges of enamel tell us more about how...
The answer lies in the effects of North Americas immense and fluctuating ice sheets. As they grew, they locked up so much water that the sea levels began to fall. The Bering Sea between Asia and North America began to drain away, leaving a bridge of...
Bears have long claws, but they get worn down by the daily grind, moving around and rooting for food. They are just not sharp enough to rip into the bisons hide. To solve this puzzle, we need to look to Africa. African buffalo are similar in size to...
In one remarkable discovery recreated here, the head and hide of a large carcass was exposed a unique opportunity for scientists to tap some Ice Age secrets. The remains were of an extinct steppe bison, a longer-horned relative of the North American...
Of all these creatures, the woolly mammoth is the undisputed symbol of the Ice Age. But what do we really know about how this giant lived. How did it use its massive spiral tusks? Modern-day elephants, the mammoths closest living relatives, may provi...
The Yukon and its neighbor, modern-day Alaska, were once part of the land that was Beringia. Stunning though this region is today is just a shadow of the world that was encountered by the First Americans. Underground, the soil is frozen solid, as it...
By searching for evidence that still survives today, we reconstruct the landscape and the wildlife of prehistoric North America. During the last Ice Age, massive glaciers covered half of North America. But to the far northwest, there was a land that...
21st century, North America, where people have reached even the remotest corners of the continent, and pushed back the boundaries of modern technology. But it isnt so long since humans first set foot here about 14,000 years ago. And back then, North...