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All that remains of the great auk now are 78 mounted skins (most from Eldey Island), 24 complete skeletons, 2 collections of preserved viscera, and around 75 eggs. The skinned corpses of Eldey island's last great auks are preserved in spirits at the Royal Museum in Copenhagen. In 1971, Iceland's Natural History Museum paid £9,000 for a stuffed great auk and had been willing to bid up to £20,000, if necessary, to acquire the specimen.

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Great Auk: largest of all auk is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list The Top 10 Most Amazing Extinct Animals

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These 10 Birds Are as Dead as the Dodo: Recently Extinct Bird #5 - The Great Auk

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Great auk | History, Habitat, Extinct, & Facts

great auk | History, Habitat, Extinct, & Facts | Britannica.com

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Holocene Extinction Month #08 – Great Auk The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was an 85 cm tall (33.5in) flightless alcid seabird. Although very penguin-like in form, this is purely due to convergent evolution – its closest living relative is the flighted razorbill. Originally found in cold coastal waters around the North Atlantic, it only ventured onto land to breed once a year. It was hunted by humans for its feathers, eggs, meat, fat, and oil, and nearly all of the nesting colonies on th...