In his new book, "The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction ... the fewer were still around, so the price would go up. Merchants and scientists would ...

Tim Birkhead, Kaliane Bradley and Mark Nowers discuss our fascination with the Great Auk and Victorian explorers, and efforts to help turtle doves, with Tom Sutcliffe. Show more The Great Auk ...

IMAGINATION has long had a large share in the accounts given of the Gare-fowl or Great Auk, notwithstanding the efforts of those who have tried to set forth nothing but the truth on the subject ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction ... It is the only certainly British specimen that still exists, and before it died it ...

The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife is the subject of Tim Birkhead’s new book. This goose-sized seabird became the favoured food of hungry sailors and ...