Today, a casual observer could be forgiven for confusing the bird, a great auk, for a penguin. The black-and-white creature ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands ...

"The great auk will always hold a place in my heart," Dr Jessica Thomas says. The Swansea-based scientist spent years piecing together an ancient DNA puzzle that suggests hunting by humans caused ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...

This is Birkhead’s account of the first to go—the Great Auk, written after he found himself the recipient of the archive of a man who accumulated more Great Auk skins than anyone else.

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The great auk was hunted to extinction in the mid-19th Century for its feathers to make pillows. In the 1920s, to meet demand from collectors for specimens, Rowland Ward Ltd started producing ...

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...

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