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

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...

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 ...

The Colossal Company ‘is the de-extinction company.’ They are financing much of the work and their aim really is to bring ...

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Natural Histories How genome editing could bring back the great auk Viscount Matt Ridley discusses the technological potential to bring back extinct species 8 mins ...