Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...

But it might be more fitting to say they went "the way of the great auk" because it was the Icelandic bird's disappearance that led to the discovery that humans activities could make a species go ...

The great auk's reintroduction could create great ecological advantages, including re-establishing balance in coastal ecosystems that once thrived with these birds. The most-bountiful bird of ...

Gísli Pálsson: The great auk was a tall bird — 80 centimeters [31 inches] and quite thick with lots of meat — and it was flightless so would nest on skerries [small rocky islands] where it ...

In the early 1800s, the birds were even more prized as they became steadily rarer, and collectors paid huge sums for just a single egg or skin. Demand from museums and collectors dealt a final, deadly ...