Sailing near the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, Laughlan McKinnon sighted a strange bird napping on a rocky sea stack. It didn’t resemble most other birds he’d seen near these waters. It wasn’t a ...

I almost never see it on sale, and Auk confirms it very rarely is, so if at any point you were on the fence, this is your last chance post–Black Friday and –Cyber Monday to save $20 to $30 on the ...

Despite my frequent attempts to look after my indoor and outdoor plants, I always seem to kill them eventually. Whether it’s from over or underwatering, or not tending to them properly during freak ...

After attracting more than 15,000 growers across 10 countries since its 2021 launch, the Auk indoor garden is now on its way to the US for the promise of year-round herbs, greens and tomatoes direct ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the North Atlantic penguin driven extinct during the 19th century reveals that even abundant and widespread species can be vulnerable to intense localized exploitation ...

During summers of my college years, I was a counselor at Camp Keewaydin near Middlebury, Vt., where pranks were attributed to the “Great Auk.” For instance, some of us, under cover of dark, rolled a ...

This summer Australian naturalist John Young assembled members of the media and told them something they should not have believed: He had found night parrots. Night parrots! A combination of words so ...

A 74-year-old totem pole that once stood at the Auke Recreation Area in Juneau is being restored for a second time. The Yax té pole had to be taken down in 2010 after it was damaged by woodpeckers and ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 12: The American University of Kuwait (AUK) sports teams participated in the 2022- 2023 University Athletics Association of Kuwait (UAAK) and secured rankings. Games took place over ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...