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 ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

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 ...

The great auk disappeared in the mid-1800s ... this creature was the first marine fish to receive federal protection as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act in 2003, according ...

In 1889 the Smithsonian had listed just four American species it considered extinct: the great auk, Labrador duck, northern elephant seal, and Steller’s sea cow. By the 1930s that list was close ...

Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic ... including the Dodo, Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), and Spectacled Cormorant (Urile perspicillatus)," the study said.

A painting of the extinct Great Auk. Oil On Panel. Errol Fuller/ Creative Commons Attribution ... “We have the means to protect most species. It is a question of political will, of course, to ...

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 ...