Sentences with phrase «great auk»

During the summer of 2017 Coates travelled to Fogo Island to ask for an official apology to be given the Great Auk, a flightless bird once numerous around the island, but extinct since 1844 due to excessive hunting.

The resulting film Apology to the Great Auk documents a sincere attempt by the community of Fogo Island, through the specially appointed apology committee, to respond and learn from the loss of what can only now be imagined.

John Deamond / Replica of Great Auk exhibit, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA / Plush Great Auk, concrete, and mixed media / 24x64x22»

What begins as a search to explain exactly why the guillemot has an oddly shaped egg evolves into a look at the history of egg collecting, the science behind egg colors, a nerve - racking experience with the few remaining eggs of the now - extinct great auk, and the study of microbes in eggs.

An eye - opening and fascinating look at the penguin - like great auk that beautifully presents the myriad factors that contributed to its extinction.

The premise of the film is in the future, smart people have vanished like the passenger pigeon or the great auk.

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

The Great Auk, Labrador Duck, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, and Heath Hen were birds that once filled unique niches in the North American landscape from the shores of Labrador and New York to the Midwestern plains.

The entire northern Atlantic ocean was once fished by a flightless, penguin - like bird, the great auk, until the last ones were killed by 1852.

The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback program served as a model for discussing the process, considerations, and obstacles necessary to overcome for the de-extinction of the Great Auk, at a meeting hosted by Lord Viscount Matthew Ridley at the Centre for Life, New Castle Upon Tyne, England.

In 2015, The Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian Gardens presented the Carolina Parakeet, Labrador Duck, Great Auk and Heath Hen in the Haupt Garden, a 4.2 - acre public rooftop garden between the Smithsonian Castle and Independence Avenue.

Great Auk Called «the penguin of the north,» these flightless pelagic birds thrived throughout the north Atlantic ocean, but their restriction to a few crowded islands for breeding made them vulnerable to exploitation by humans that reached industrial scale.

Tom Gilbert, from the University of Copenhagen, said that his initial sequencing of the Great Auk genome showed that its living relative, the razorbill, is even more closely related than previously thought.

The great auk — a flightless, North Atlantic seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century — is held up as a prime example of the damage done by overzealous museum collectors.

For eco-artists such as Rupp, there is a haunting beauty in bringing the past back, of recreating the dead and gathering them together — in this picture, a pair of moas, a great auk, and a dodo, birds that never would have met while alive — so that those of us in the world of the living can learn from them.

Ornithologists and museum administrators, for example, helped push the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) penguin out of existence in 1844 by fueling demand that pushed prices ever higher for its skin and eggs.

Scientists are also close to reconstructing the genomes of the dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct from Mauritius, its only home, in the late 1600s; and the great auk, which lived in the North Atlantic before dying out in the mid-19th century.

By TIM BIRKHEAD The great auk has the dubious privilege of being the only species whose extinction is known precisely.

The number of specimens of great auks, dodos, passenger pigeons and many iconic extinct species in museum collections is vanishingly small compared to the numbers that were cooked, killed for their feathers, shot for sport, or eaten by introduced species, such as cats.

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

And we end up living in a world without Great Auks and gastric brooding frogs.

Great auks, flightless birds resembling penguins, were prolific in the icy waters of the northern Atlantic until human hunters, egg collectors, and climate change led to their extinction.