The existence of the flightless great birds, which once lived in Scotland and were hunted to extinction in the 19th century, was not represented in the university’s massive collections of more than one million items.
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Raiders of the lost auk discover rare remains in university museum
For zoologists at Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at Glasgow University, the Great Auk was a subject of much dismay.
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