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

The great auk was hunted in the Scottish Isles ... in the 16th and 17th centuries. They would hunt great auks in their thousands, decimating the local stock. At the same time, they would kill ...

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 ...

The Great Auk lived in large colonies in and around the ... It is thought that wolves held out the longest in Scotland, where they were able to hunt red deer. The population of grey wolves has ...