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 ...

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 ...

It is commonly said that dodos were the first animal to go extinct at the hands of humans after we hunted them into oblivion in the 1600s, but this isn't really true. For starters, humans had likely ...