The Great Auk was tall and weighed around, making it the largest member of the alcid family.

During summer, the Great Auk had a white patch over each eye.

Great Auk pairs mated for life.

Humans had hunted the Great Auk for more than 100, 000 years.

Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.

Scientists soon began to realize that the Great Auk was disappearing and it became the beneficiary of many early environmental laws, but this proved not to be enough.

The Great Auk is mentioned in a number of novels and the scientific journal of the American Ornithologists ' Union is named The Auk in honour of this bird.

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The Great Auk was also closely related to the Little Auk ( Dovekie ), which underwent a radically different evolution compared to Pinguinus.

Due to its outward similarity to the Razorbill ( apart from flightlessness and size ), the Great Auk was often placed in the genus Alca, following Linnaeus.

The molecular data are compatible with either view, but the weight of evidence suggests placing the Great Auk in a distinct genus.

The Great Auk was not closely related to the other extinct genera of flightless alcids, Mancalla, Praemancalla, and Alcodes.

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Pinguinus alfrednewtoni lived in the western Atlantic while the Great Auk lived in the eastern Atlantic, but after the former died out after the Pliocene, the Great Auk replaced it.

The Great Auk was one of the 4400 animal species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, in which it was named Alca impennis.

Only known illustration of a Great Auk drawn from life, Ole Worm's pet received from the Faroe Islands

The Basque name for the Great Auk is arponaz, meaning " spearbill ".

The Norse called the Great Auk geirfugl, which means " spearbird ".

The Inuit name for the Great Auk was isarukitsck, which meant " little wing ".

* Pinguinus impennis Great Auk

Some ornithologists also feel it is appropriate to retain the Great Auk in the genus Alca, instead of Pinguinus.

Or the penguin might refer to the extinct Great Auk, genus Pinguinus, once known commonly as " penguins ".

It is closest living relative to the Great Auk ( Pinguinis impennis ) which is now extinct.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

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In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

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Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.