Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus assumed that extinction was either impossible or something that took place over millennia. They had not considered that human activities could reduce and obliterate a ...

Two preserved great auk specimens displayed at a museum in 1971. The last pair of great auks were killed in 1844.

The great auk had long provided humans with a source of meat and eggs. But from around 1500, hunting dramatically intensified when Europeans discovered the rich fishing grounds of Newfoundland.

The great auk could reach 30 inches from tip to tail and lived along the rocky shorelines of the icy North Atlantic. It looked a lot like a penguin. In fact, ...

The discovery of the great auk in Wyoming is consoling but puzzling. How a diving bird, whose habitat before it was supposed to perish off the face of the earth, about the middle of the last ...

How Jan Thornhill wrote a picture book about the extinct great auk. Here are a few bonus facts about the extinct prowlers of the sea, from The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk's appendix. 1.

So when Laughlan McKinnon saw an auk around July 1840, it’s likely he and his two companions had money on their minds. For an unknown reason, however, they made the unusual decision to take the ...

The Great auk, John Gerrard Keulemans/Public domain/WikimediaCommons. DNA research has recently established that the stuffed bird in The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels is, in ...

The dodo flies again – as do the great auk, giant moa... Peter Blake and Ralph Steadman are among artists bringing extinct birds back to life. Michael McCarthy. Wednesday 02 November 2011 01:00 GMT.

The great auk, a puffin relative, was a flightless seabird found along the coasts of North America and western Europe. They were large birds, weighing up to 11 pounds with large fat deposits.

IMAGINATION has long had a large share in the accounts given of the Gare-fowl or Great Auk, notwithstanding the efforts of those who have tried to set forth nothing but the truth on the subject ...