Landbridge

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Landbridge

A railroad that connects two stations on opposite sides of a continent. A landbridge may be used to transport persons or cargo.

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Those land routes would have been somewhat similar to other ocean crossings, such as the Bering land bridge humans traversed around 23,000 years ago between Asia and North America (,SN: 8/22/15, p.

How dinosaurs crossed an ocean: land bridges might have enabled transatlantic treks

My view is that United could well land Bridges in January when he is free to talk to any club he wants to providing he has not signed a new deal at Elland Road.

Toon back on Bridges alert

It would compete with Canadian and US land bridges that transport the majority of international trade, and the Panama Canal.

REGION: PLAN PUEBLA PANAMA HUNTING FOR PRIVATE INVESTMENT

These can be culverts under roadways for small mammals and reptiles to land bridges over interstates for large animals.

BYPASSES FOR BAMBI

Some biologists also think ancient land bridges between islands or even continents offered another route that animal populations used to migrate, or move from one place to another.

Rafting Iguanas

In contrast, Beard theorizes that Teilhardina migrated from Asia across land bridges to North America and then to Europe.