Unsurprisingly, the auk woke and began to wail. And as the bird screamed, rain began to fall. The men decided to wait out the storm in a small hut called a bothy, and they took the bird inside ...

Gísli Pálsson: The great auk was a tall bird — 80 centimeters [31 inches] and quite thick with lots of meat — and it was ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...