After the last two great auks were killed and stuffed in 1844, they disappeared. A decades-long chase has finally tracked ...

The last pair — a breeding male and female — were killed by hunters in 1844 while defending their egg, researchers said.

Author and professor Gísli Pálsson details the final years of the North Atlantic flightless birds that were driven to extinction by humans — an event that caused a moment of realization about humanity ...

Of all sad stories that are to be found in the annals of natural history, that of the Great Auk-or Pinguinus impennis-is about the saddest of all. This huge, flightless bird has ranged from the icy ...

IN 1858, John Wolley and Alfred Newton, two British scientists, travelled to Iceland to study the great auk, a large, flightless seabird. They hoped to observe the bird in its natural habitat and ...