Today, a casual observer could be forgiven for confusing the bird, a great auk, for a penguin. The black-and-white creature was clumsy on land but a torpedo in the sea. It feasted on fish and had ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction ... They were slaughtered in huge numbers when they came ashore to breed. European ...