August 21, 2016 |
UPDATED 14:20 IST
London, Aug 21 (PTI) Scientists
are planning to bring the extinct great auk back from the dead, almost 200
years after the penguin-sized, flightless birds disappeared.
A team of researchers met at the
International Centre for Life in Newcastle to discuss reintroducing the
flightless marine birds onto the Farne islands off the north-east coast of
England.
Until the species final
extinction in the middle of the 19th century, great auks ranged across the
Atlantic from Northern Europe to Iceland, Canada and the US.
The size of a medium penguin, it
lived in the open ocean except for when it waddled ashore for breeding.
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