Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1844, Jon Brandsson, Sigurdur Isleifsson, and Ketill Ketilsson set out for Eldey Island, off the southwest coast of Iceland.

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 ...

The Cincinnati Museum Center has proven it owns one of the world's last great auks, an extinct flightless seabird. DNA research proved the specimen, nicknamed Eldey, was one of a breeding pair killed ...

The great auk looks like a penguin, but it's not. A taxidermied penguin-looking seabird at the Cincinnati Museum Center was the last of its kind in the world. That finding was confirmed by scientists ...

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 ...