The great auk was a large seabird of the family Alcidae, a group which includes the razorbill, guillemot and puffin, breeding ...

Victorian hunters, explorers and collectors feature strongly in the story of the Great Auk. The writer Kaliane Bradley places the 19th century polar explorer Commander Graham Gore at the heart of her ...

In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along with 12 others, made the perilous journey by boat from Iceland to the island of Eldey. They were searching for great auks: black and ...

But there is a very different story told of it in Mr. Symington Grieve's important work on “The Great Auk, its history, archæology, and remains,” published in 1885. At p. 105 of this volume ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, passenger pigeon, and others. Scientists worldwide are engaged in these ...

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 ...

There are currently 987,000 16 to 24-year-olds at a loose end, neither in education or employment, a quarter of them ...

This deeply disturbing account of how mobile phones are irreparably harming the next generation is both harrowing and timely ...

Jessie Greengrass’s fiction includes An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It. The Great Auk is published by Bloomsbury at £20. To order your copy for £16.99 ...