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 ...

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 ...

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

Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North ...

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 ...

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 ...