Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 6 abstract Among bird bones from archeological sites submitted for identification by Ripley P. Bullen of the Florida State Museum are the proximal portion of a right humerus of the Great Ank (Pinguinus impennis) and the proximal portion of a left humerus of the Common Murre (Uria aalFe). The […]
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A SUBFOSSIL GREAT AUK-PINGUINUS IMPENNIS(L.) FROM THE NETHERLANDS
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 4 abstract In the spring of 1977 a nearly complete skeleton of a Great Auk was recovered during the excavation of a Roman site at Velsen (prov. North Holland) by the Albert Egges van Giffen Institute for Pre- and Protohistory (I.P.P.) of the University of Amsterdam. The find can […]
First Record of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from Labrador
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 2 abstract Recent archeological investigations undertaken by Bryan Mawr College and the Smithsonian institution along the Torngat Mountain coastline of northernmost Labrador have produced the first documented evidence of the extinct Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, from the Labrador Peninsula. RICHARD H. JORDAN AND STORRS L. OLSON, Auk, Vol. 99 […]
An Attempt to Determine the Prey of the Great Auk
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 3 abstract The flightless Great Auk (?inguinus impennis), the largest of all Recent Alcidae, was exterminated in 1844 (Greenway 1958), and no one who can properly be called a naturalist ever encountered the bird inlife. As a consequence, virtually no details are known of its behavior or ecology. One […]
Postglacial fossil Great Auk and associated avian fauna from the Biscay Bay.
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 5 abstract no abstract Elorza M & Sanchez Marco A, Munibe, 45: 179-185. Download article download full text (pdf)
NOTICE OF THE REMAIN’S OF THE GREAT AUK, OR GARE-FOWL, (ALGA IMPENNIS, LINN.), FOUND IN CAITHNESS; WITH NOTES OF ITS OCCURRENCE IN SCOTLAND AND OF ITS EARLY HISTORY
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 7 abstract As one of the editors of the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society, I prepared the list of the various donations for the meeting of the Society held in January 1867 (‘Proceedings,’ vol. vii.), and gave a rough summary of the collection of stone, bone, and metal implements,also […]
THE GREAT AUK, PINGUINUS IMPENNIS (L.) IN GREENLAND
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 1 abstract This paper presents all available ‘archaeozoological, ethnohistorical, and historical evidence on the Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis (L.), in Greenland Substantial new contributions are: ( 1) the presentation of 132 Auk bones from seven archaeological sites, and ( 2) a translation of Otto Fabricius’s original handwritten notes on […]
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis)
The story The Great Auk is one of the true stars of extinction. Its story rises and falls like a Greek tragedy. This was a creature that had evolved perfectly to take advantage of a particular ecological niche but its very adaptation rendered it totally incapable of withstanding the depredations of man. It is probably […]