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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...