The little auks that lived in the Pacific

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Findings from a 700,000-year-old fossil bone indicate that a close relative of the most abundant seabird species in the North Atlantic, the modern dovekie, or 'little auk,' used to thrive in the Pacific Ocean and Japan.

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