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

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 ...

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

During summers of my college years, I was a counselor at Camp Keewaydin near Middlebury, Vt., where pranks were attributed to the “Great Auk.” For instance, some of us, under cover of dark, rolled a ...

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