A solar alignment with the extinct.

#Papay
#sunhalo
#Orkney
#greatauk

A first Winter Great auk.
Seasons negotiated.

#Papay #Greatauk #extinctionevent

Watching a "documentary" about searching for living great auks. Don't give me false hope, youtube 😭😭😭
#greatauk

Character badge finished! She has a name now, too.
#furry #furryart #greatauk

SHE IS FINISHED!
(Shirt, tongue, and shoes are in the mail!)
#fursuit #greatauk

Furring finished! Just gotta make the cowl (tomorrow) and wait for the tongue (DreamVisionCreations) to arrive!
#fursuit #greatauk

Whoooo she arrived!
HERE WE GO AGAIN!!
#fursuit #greatauk
(Base and assembly by DragonArtist15 on Etsy)

Today is Penguin Awareness Day, and I want to raise awareness of the original penguin! The great auk had the name "penguin" long before the seabirds from the southern hemisphere ever did.
#greatauk #penguin egg replica by @lincolnsavi.bsky.social

Check this out! Hodari is like a brother to me, and he's a great artist!

#birds #sciart #greatauk

Counting while recounting.

#Papay #greatauk #webscount

SCREECHING AND CRYING!!
This arrived today!!!!
#birds #greatauk #extinct #figurines

A winter palace and a winter king. The Knap of Howar and the Papay Great auk on a breezy Papay tour today.

#Papay
#greatauk
#orkney

Last #GreatAuk #killed

This morning I presented a project about how André Thevet was partially responsible for the taxonomic confusion between the Great auk and Penguins. It was well received. #hss2025 #greatauk #penguins #histsci #earlymodern #animalhistory

Great Auk adult with chick beside it, below them is what the great auk's egg looked like along with the year the last great auk was seen 1852

Great Auk

a piece I thought would be perfect for halloween, art of my favorite extinct bird.

🪶🦉 #wildlifeillustration #bird #birb #digitalillustration #greatauk #extinctbird #paleoart

A sitting wolf surrounded by a thylacine, tiger, great auk, quagga, polar bear and plesiadapis

A stone carving of a wolf and other animals surrounding it.

Queen Vespera surrounded by a mix of extinct and endangered animals. The composition was based on a stone carving I saw in Ghent, Belgium last May.

#wolf #tiger #thylacine #quagga #tiger #greatauk #polarbear #plesiadapis #digitalart

In 2017, we discovered the whereabouts of the last known male #greatauk 👉 tinyurl.com/3nc8s74x

Now we’ve confirmed where the last female resides…
Spoiler: she’s at @cincymuseum.bsky.social!

Read the full story here 👉 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

"Hey artists, post your OC and the influences behind them."

#blender #canadiangoose #OC #penguin #3dcg #greatauk

#Neolithic #GreatAuk

A new piece depicting the now extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis).

#art #traditionalart #penguin #greatauk #extinction #extinct

Replica van één van de 75 resterende eieren van de uitgestorven #reuzenalk, Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, Duitsland. De laatste reuzenalken werden in 1844 gedood op IJsland. Foto uit mijn fotoboek: Over leven en uitsterven. sijmenhendriks.com/fotoboeken/ #extinction #extinctie #fotoboek #greatauk #birds

The Ghost of the Great Auk: Can Groundbreaking De-Extinction Science Reverse a Human-Caused Tragedy? "Exploring the science and profound ethical questions behind the de-extinction of the Great Auk, a species hunted to oblivion in 1844."

More Than a Ghost Story: The Audacious Plan to Resurrect the Great Auk and the Ethical Firestorm It Ignites
#DeExtinction #GreatAuk #GeneticEngineering #CRISPR #Conservation #ScienceEthics #FactRage #FactRageNews

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Penguins in the Arctic? Unraveling the Polar Paradox of Their Absence "Discover why penguins are found exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, the geographical and evolutionary reasons, and the tragic story of the Arctic's extinct 'penguin,' the Great Auk."

The True Story of Polar Wildlife: Why Penguins Call the Southern Hemisphere Home
#Penguins #ArcticWildlife #GreatAuk #Extinction #FactRage #FactRageNews

tglm.us/qCS3P

Het IJslandse eiland Eldey. Hier werden in 1844 de laatste reuzenalken gedood. Foto uit #overlevenenuitsterven. Meer over het uitsterven van de reuzenalk op: wp.me/pHqVl-1jA #extinctie #fotoboek #greatauk #iceland #extinction

On July 3, 1844, the last two confirmed specimens of the Great Auk were killed off the coast of Iceland. Every July 3 we commemorate and honor this amazing species with World Seabird Day to educate and inform so a tragedy like this never happens again.

#extinction #worldseabirdday #greatauk

Great auk in Zoologisches Museum, #Kiel, Germany. The last great auks were killed in 1844 and the species went extinct. Photo from my photobook (in Dutch): Over leven en uitsterven. More info (in Dutch): sijmenhendriks.com/fotoboeken/ #extinction #fotoboek #greatauk #biodiversity #reuzenalk #birds

Digital illustration of a Great Auk. The bird is depicted from its side and it is stretching its neck and body upwards to catch a fish in its beak. The background is a muted, dark blue.

Great Auk! :D

#birds #greatauk #art

Digital illustration of a Great Auk‘s head on a white background.

quick study of a Great Auk, (or well, it‘s head,) as practice

#bird #greatauk #art