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Bering Land Bridge National PreserveCrayon drawing by a junior ranger of a fish jumping from water with mountains and trees in the background.
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Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
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A group of brown walrus, many with long white ivory tusks, sitting on the edge of the sea ice.
A group of walrus sitting on the sea ice. Walrus have to get out of the water every once in a while to rest and warm up. You can tell a walrus is cold when its skin is a very pale shade of pink.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is pretty far away from, well everywhere, so look here to take a virtual visit to the park and back in time to the ice age.
The head and shoulders of a giant short faced bear.
Cool Ice Age Wildlife
Some fun stuff about ice age wildlife
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Two male musk oxen budding heads in the middle of the Kougarok Road in Nome, Alaska.  

Did You Know?
Musk Oxen were once extinct on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska and were reintroduced in 1970 and are today thriving on the Penisula, including Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.

Last Updated: October 02, 2007 at 18:00 EST