Scientists reveal why Bering Bridge let humans cross — but not all animals

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A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea.

But new research, employing a vessel's sonar and coring technology, shows the environment was likely dominated by bogs, floodplains, and snaking streams.

"It may have been marshy, but we are still seeing evidence of mammoths," Sarah Fowell, a paleogeologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said in a statement.

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