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

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 ...

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