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 ...

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 ...

Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North Atlantic for millennia. Birkhead, who has written several ...

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 ...