Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...

His key point is that [other] species may be increasingly disappearing in the fashion of the great auk. I didn't quite realize this until late in my writing process, and diving again and again ...

The great auk's reintroduction could create great ecological ... become the greatest lessons for other species facing extinction. The giant, flightless bird known as the moa was originally from ...

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 ...