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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great Auks (Extinct) (detail, c 1903) by John Gerrard Keulemans In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along ...

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 ...

The whereabouts of the skin of the last female great auk, which has puzzled experts for 180 years, has been confirmed, according to a study. Sandra Toombs Image first published in Explorers Journal ...

The great auk looks like a penguin, but it's not. A taxidermied penguin-looking seabird at the Cincinnati Museum Center was the last of its kind in the world. That finding was confirmed by scientists ...

This bland history by Pálsson (Down to Earth), an anthropology professor emeritus at the University of Iceland, traces how British naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton’s 1858 expedition to ...

During summers of my college years, I was a counselor at Camp Keewaydin near Middlebury, Vt., where pranks were attributed to the “Great Auk.” For instance, some of us, under cover of dark, rolled a ...

James Beard Award winner Birdsall (The Man Who Ate Too Much) provides an eye-opening exploration of how food has helped shape “the queer arc of survival” in American life. Continue reading » I’ll ...

Great auk humeri from Funk Island. These samples are part of the great auk collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

A mounted great auk skin, The Brussels Auk (RBINS 5355), from the collections at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...