When species cease to exist ... In his book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, Gísli Pálsson retraces a 1858 trip two English scientists took ...

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And yet, [the great auk] became the signature of human caused extinction. The peasants said that there was no indication that they would worry about the end of this species, they imagined that the ...

The Great Auk lived in large colonies in and ... trees and kill the native red squirrel.” Five British animals you didn't know are endangered Have you seen one of these animals in the wild ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species ...

where she is on view through October 2015 in the exhibition “Once There Were Billions”—accompanied by specimens of three other extinct avian species: the great auk, Carolina parakeet and ...

It became extinct in 1983, but in 2013, scientists were able to implant a "dead" cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species. The Great Auk went extinct in the mid-19th century.

Natural Histories How genome editing could bring back the great auk Viscount Matt Ridley discusses the technological potential to bring back extinct species 8 mins ...

De-extinction fans suggest that this might be a way for people to feel less guilty about the havoc we have wrought on wildlife. We killed off the dodo, the great auk, the passenger pigeon, and we are ...