at the time the intensive great auk hunting began, the species was doing "really well". "They weren't at risk of extinction at all," said Dr Thomas. "It emphasises how vulnerable even the ...

And yet, [the great auk] became the signature of human caused extinction. The peasants said that there was no indication that ...

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 ...

A replica of a giant penguin-like bird which became extinct nearly 200 years ago has sold at auction for £25,000. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the mid-19th Century for its feathers ...

written after he found himself the recipient of the archive of a man who accumulated more Great Auk skins than anyone else. It all makes this long-extinct bird a symbol of human folly and the ...

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 Great Auk went extinct in the mid-19th century ... in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago. The Mastodon is an extinct species related to elephants that lived in North and Central America.

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...

A newly launched project called The Book of Extinction tells the stranger-than-fiction true stories of animals now lost, alongside game statistics as fantasy monsters. Readers can pay what they want ...

created beautiful collages of extinct Birds of America using commercially produced stickers. Included in this series are the ...