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A Gap in Nature

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013
  • By Tim Flannery
The World

In the latest installment in our occasional series “A Gap in Nature,” author Tim Flannery tells us the story of the Great Auk, a stately bird of the North Atlantic that was exterminated by humans by the 1800’s.

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