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 ...

Scientists found new and missing species on Charity Island, showing how wildlife changes over a century on this remote Lake Huron island.

The original remains of the Papa Westray Great Auk have been scanned and cast in bronze.

New research found regrowth in Queensland provided valuable habitat after 15 years, on average, with some species benefiting from trees as young as 3 years of age.

Artists drawing, engraving or painting great auk images suffered the same reconstruction difficulties, evidenced by many dreadful illustrations. Part of the problem is that members of the auk family ...

Great Plains Zoo announced Thursday it plans to house Simba, a male African lion who has lived at the Detroit Zoo for more than a decade, at its state-of-the-art lion habitat.

But there is a very different story told of it in Mr. Symington Grieve's important work on “The Great Auk, its history, archæology, and remains,” published in 1885.

Over the next 200 years, with astonishing brutality, the great auk would be hunted in droves, first for food, then for feathers, and then, once its near-extinction made it ­valuable, for nothing other ...

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 ...

For instance, he discusses how analysis of DNA extracted from great auk bones revealed the species hadn’t suffered a decline in genetic diversity before its demise, indicating its extinction was ...

The Great Auk, known scientifically as *Pinguinus impennis*, once roamed the North Atlantic Ocean. These flightless birds ...