A bronze statue has been unveiled as a memorial to the last Great Auk killed on the Orkney island of Papa Westray. It is an exact copy of the last of the giant seabirds that lived on the island in ...

A bronze statue has been unveiled as a memorial to the last Great Auk killed on the Orkney island of Papa Westray. It is an exact copy of the last of the giant seabirds that lived on the island in ...

Islanders in Papa Westray at the unveiling of the bronze Great Auk statue A bronze statue has been unveiled as a memorial to the last Great Auk killed on the Orkney island of Papa Westray.

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During this extensive timespan, they underwent remarkable morphological diversification, especially in their dentition, an adaptation well-documented in the fossil record," says Carvalho.