The Great Auk once ranged over the entire North Atlantic. But it had the misfortune of being both edible and endowed with fetching down. By 1844, humans had hunted it into extinction. This is Brian R. Williams's illustra...

When you’re a kid, you know the dinosaurs went e...  ...e penguins. The Spanish and Portuguese called the auks pingüinos and the Welsh called it pengwyn, meani...  ...vered penguins, they thought they were related to auks and thus, gave them the same name. While auks were...