The remains of a great auk — a penguin-like, flightless seabird — in the Cincinnati Museum Center's collection have been ...

Cincinnati took custody of a great auk in 1974. A new DNA test proves it's one of the last survivors of the seabird species.

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 ...

In the summer of 1844, on a small island off the coast of Iceland, the last two great auks on Earth stood guard over their single egg. They were the only surviving members of the last colony decimated ...

In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along with 12 others, made the perilous journey by boat from Iceland to the island of Eldey. They were searching for great auks: black and ...

During summers of my college years, I was a counselor at Camp Keewaydin near Middlebury, Vt., where pranks were attributed to the “Great Auk.” For instance, some of us, under cover of dark, rolled a ...

The whereabouts of the skin of the last female great auk, which has puzzled experts for 180 years, has been confirmed, according to a study. Sandra Toombs Image first published in Explorers Journal ...