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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It is commonly said that dodos were the first animal to go extinct at the hands of humans after we hunted them into oblivion in the 1600s, but this isn't really true. For starters, humans had likely ...

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 ...

The North Atlantic was once home to a bird that bore a remarkable similarity to penguins. The great auk, also known as “the original penguin”, was a large, flightless, black and white bird, that is ...

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 ...

The U.S. is now a massive societal dinosaur. To go the way of the Great Auk or Woolly Mammoth might not be such a bad thing for the planet. John Steppling is an original founding member of the Padua ...

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 ...