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Cincinnati Museum Center Bird Specimen Helps Solve 180-Year-Old Extinction Mystery

The Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) just helped solve a nearly 200-year-old zoological mystery.  The museum says new research confirms that its ornithology collection holds the remains of the last-surviving female great auk (Pinguinus impennis), a now-extinct, flightless seabird. Researchers from Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom worked with curators and specimens from […]

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