I found the bit on Wikipedia describing the extinction of the Great auk pretty depressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk#Extinction https://en.wikiped

I found the bit on Wikipedia describing the extinction of the Great auk pretty depressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk#Extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk#Extinction > The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.