Great auk in 3D

11 April 2008 Filed in: Wildlife
picture of great auk
The Dutch National Museum of Natural History has an informative page on great auks accompanied by a 3D view of the specimen in its collection.
The provenance of the bird isn't known for certain but it is likely to have come from Eldey, a small island of the south west tip of Iceland, where the last two known great auks were killed in June 1844.