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 ...

Sailing near the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, Laughlan McKinnon sighted a strange bird napping on a rocky sea stack. It didn’t resemble most other birds he’d seen near these waters. It wasn’t a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great Auks (Extinct) (detail, c 1903) by John Gerrard Keulemans In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along ...

Henry Bodkin is The Telegraph’s Jerusalem Correspondent, based in Israel. He has reported on the Israel-Hamas war, terrorism, Israeli politics, life in the Palestinian territories and Middle East ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jessica Thomas is a double-degree PhD student enrolled at Bangor University and the University of Copenhagen. She receives funding from NERC PhD Studentship (NE/L501694/1), the Genetics ...

A replica of a giant penguin-like bird which became extinct nearly 200 years ago has sold at auction for £25,000. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the mid-19th Century for its feathers to ...