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

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 ...

Also known as the ‘Penguin of the North’, the Great Auk was a large, flightless bird. Not only is it extinct in Britain, but also right across the world. Great Auks were easy targets for ...

Sadly, these beautiful creatures were hunted to extinction for their meat, feathers and fat. The last living great auk was spotted in 1852. None have been seen in the UK since. The howls of wolves ...

Biologists have identified common features in species that have vanished since 1500, finding that large body size and specialised niches made birds vulnerable to extinction.

A mounted great auk skin, The Brussels Auk (RBINS 5355), from the collections at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

It’s hard to be sure because by the 1860s the great auk was extinct. It had once been abundant: in the 16th century, a breeding ground off Newfoundland – known as Funk Island for the... Oology – the ...

A newly launched project called The Book of Extinction tells the stranger-than-fiction true ... Readers can pay what they want for the first three monsters — the Tasmanian tiger, great auk and ...