The end of the auk The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction Gísli Pálsson Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.

An anthropologist recounts how a pair of 19th-century naturalists traced an elusive bird’s extinction in real time

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Published in:Science
Main Author: Barrow, Mark V.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2024
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adn2788
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adn2788
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Summary:An anthropologist recounts how a pair of 19th-century naturalists traced an elusive bird’s extinction in real time