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 ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

They recently went through every known specimen of the spectacled cormorant ... obscured by the more prominent extinction of the great auk in the same decade. While the passing of the auk was ...

One of six extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs in the museum collection. This 17th century specimen is the famous egg thought to have once been owned by the great 18th century Italian ...