But other, more plucky animals managed to hold on a bit longer. The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was a bird that dominated the North Atlantic during the ice age and into modern times.

The Great Auk lived in large colonies in and around ... This top carnivore is a pack animal, with wolves hunting together in groups to take down larger prey, like deer. Although the Eurasian ...

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 ...

We killed off the dodo, the great auk, the passenger pigeon ... We might be fascinated for a moment to see these ancient animals in the flesh, but then we would worry about what they might do as they ...