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Great Auk (Penguinus impennis)
Extinct Great Auk - last flightless bird of the northern hemisphere.
Great Auk graveyard - skull and bones exhumed from the grassy meadow on Funk Island
Scanning for Great Auks
Nature abhores a vacuum
Great Auk ancestor.
A video of social foraging by Adelie Penguins that are about the same size as Great Auks. Please click the above link to play the video (Apple Quicktime: .mov).