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Wander the galleries of this museum whenever you wish—it’s open 365 days a year

readers will be captivated by the endless wonders of this seemingly small speck of the animal kingdom

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The Tragic Tale Of The Great Auk Taxidermy form-intermediusFor hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non fiction picture book, award winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that weighed as much as a sack of