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 ...

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 ...

The event was organized by the Center of Continuing Education (CCE) at the American University of Kuwait (AUK) and featured Mr Ahmed Tarek Khalil, the renowned investor and entrepreneur from Shark ...

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 ...

In his mesmerising study of the great auk and its afterlife, Tim Birkhead asks how far science itself was to blame for the bird’s extinction ...

Elle Fanning in "The Great." Credit: Christopher Raphael/Hulu Tony McNamara's acid-tongued series The Great has certainly earned its name over the course of its past two seasons, boasting witty ...