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

Sailing near the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, Laughlan McKinnon sighted a strange bird napping on a rocky sea stack.

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 ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...

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 ...

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 ...