* Astronomy

The last pair of Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, found incubating an egg, was killed on the island of Eldey on 3 July 1844, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.
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A look at the life and demise of the great Auk, solving the mystery of its extinction using the latest scientific research and computer graphics.