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 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 ...

Author and professor Gísli Pálsson details the final years of the North Atlantic flightless birds that were driven to extinction by humans — an event that caused a moment of realization about humanity ...

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 ...