"12 American Animals Lost to Extinction – Who's Next?" Dive into the past to explore the unique traits and tragic fates of these remarkable creatures, from the Passenger Pigeon to the Great Auk.

The great auk was hunted in the Scottish Isles ... and they began competing for rare animals or plants. It became an economic spiral. The harder the competition for eggs, skins, or bones, the ...

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.

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 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 ...