Title
Bones of great auks, last sighted live off Iceland in 1844, are common in Maine
Date
1-1-1988
Volume Number
Volume 5
Pages
52
Abstract
Bones of great auks, last sighted live off Iceland in 1844, are common in Maine island shell heaps, suggesting that they visited the Gulf of Maine. Sea minks, extinct by 1910, lived exclusively off the Maine coast. Their extinctions are both tied to their island existence. Island biotas are among the most extinction-prone on Earth, comprising 1 percent of the Earth's land mass and 75 percent of recent vertebrate extinctions. Details.
Subjects
Extinct animals, Islands
Recommended Citation
Podolsky, Richard, "Bones of great auks, last sighted live off Iceland in 1844, are common in Maine" (1988). Maine News Index - Island Journal. 140.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_island/140
Source
Island Journal