Great Auk Image via Pexels. The great auk, a flightless bird once common along the North Atlantic coasts, fell victim to excessive hunting. By re-establishing this charismatic seabird through cloning, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural ...

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 ...