Behind the first great auk came another and then two more.
Who would see to it that the great auk's eggs aren't stolen?
If the species dies out it will be Europe's first bird extinction since the great auk in 1844.
At the same sale he also bought a Great Auk and an egg for just over £16.
Of course, the great auk, a giant penguinlike ocean bird, was last seen in 1844.
Extinct species include the Irish elk, the great auk and the wolf.
The great auk and the dodo might still be alive today, if they had not been ectogenetic.
Penguins are as closely adapted to sea life as the great auk was, maybe more so.
The word "penguin" originally referred to the great auk.
That's got to be rarer than the great auk.