The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

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Sailing near the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, Laughlan McKinnon sighted a strange bird napping on a rocky sea stack. It didn’t resemble most other birds he’d seen near these waters. It wasn’t a ...

New research finds that the extinction of this flightless bird was completely our fault. By Cara Giaimo Not so long ago, the northern seas were full of great auks. Every summer, millions of the ...

An image from Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting the Great Auk. Public Domain under PD-US The great auk, a large, flightless bird with a black back and a white belly, once lived across ...

New work using ancient DNA to study museum specimens supports the conclusion that the exclusive responsibility for the extinction of the Great Auk belongs to human hunters. Great Auks once thrived ...

The great auk by John James Audubon. University of Pittsburgh/Wikimedia On a small island off the coast of Iceland, 173 years ago, a sequence of tragic events took place that would lead to the loss of ...

Great auks were flightless birds believed to have existed in millions throughout the North Atlantic, on islands off the coasts of Iceland and Scotland, as well as in Scandinavia. Unfortunately, the ...

Now extinct, the great auk (Pinguinus impennis), a flightless bird, once inhabited the shores of the North Atlantic by the millions. The wings of the great auk were specialized for "flying" underwater ...

On a small island off the coast of Iceland, 173 years ago, a sequence of tragic events took place that would lead to the loss of an iconic bird: the great auk. The great auk, Pinguinus impennis, was a ...