The last glacial episode between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago marks the transition between the end of the Pleistocene epoch, about 10,000 years ago and the beginning of the Holocene, the epoch in which we live.

A wide land bridge, called the Bering Land Bridge, that linked present-day Alaska with present-day northeastern Siberia was exposed and provided a corridor between Eurasia and North America.  The Land Bridge and lands immediately to the east and west of it have acquired the name Beringia and is an extremely important geographical entity in the ecological history of North America.  At the height of the last glacial maximum so much of the world’s water was locked up in continental ice sheets that the sea level was several hundred feet below its present level.

Information about Beringia and the plants and animals that existed there.

American Mastadon
Bluefish Caves – Old Crow, Yukon
Flora of Beringia
Giant Beaver
Ice Age Horse
Jefferson’s Ground Sloth
Prehistoric Horse Discovered in the Klondike
Saiga Antelope
Short-Faced Bear
Steppe Bison
Western Camel
Woolly Mammoth