Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

#7 Great Auk - Extinct 1852 The Great Auk, a flightless seabird sometimes called the garefowl or penguin, vanished from Earth in the mid-19th century, having first appeared around 400,000 years ago.

A bronze statue has been unveiled as a memorial to the last Great Auk killed on the Orkney island of Papa Westray. It is an exact copy of the last of the giant seabirds that lived on the island in ...

De-extinction fans suggest that this might be a way for people to feel less guilty about the havoc we have wrought on wildlife. We killed off the dodo, the great auk, the passenger pigeon, and we are ...

Discover the haunting stories of 12 American animals lost to extinction in our latest video, "12 American Animals Lost to Extinction – Who's Next?" Dive into the past to explore the unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Decline: Factors Leading to Extinction Great Auk Egg. Image by U. S. National Museum, in a book by Arthur Cleveland Bent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Despite its adaptability and ...

The U.S. even had a bird resembling a penguin, called the Great Auk, which is now gone as well. An incredible characteristic of birds is their ability to warn us before they go extinct.