The great auk has now become a powerful symbol of the damage humans can cause. Douglas Russell, Senior Curator of Birds at the Museum, says, 'The threats facing our flora and fauna are as great, if ...

"The great auk will always hold a place in my heart ... Dr Thomas studied bone and tissue samples from 41 museum specimens during a PhD at both Bangor and Copenhagen University.

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 ...

It is thought the statue - complete with head - was commissioned by the Orkney Field Club Great ... museum "For the two hundredth anniversary five years ago we got a hologram made of that auk ...

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...

Urry, A. 2021. Alfred Newton’s second-hand histories of extinction: hearsay, gossip, misapprehension (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2020). Archives of ...

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Also known as the ‘Penguin of the North’, the Great Auk was a large, flightless bird. Not only is it extinct in Britain, but also right across the world. Great Auks were easy targets for ...

Many Victorian novels mention ‘birdnesting’ as a hobby for schoolboys home for the holidays. Collecting wild bird nests or eggs, or oology (the scientific term for the study of eggs), was seen ...

They appear in “Colonial Crossings,” at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.Credit...Amrita Stuetzle for The New York Times This Labor Day, then, might it be time for a ...