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Land Animal

Name: The Great Auk

Description: The Great Auk looked like a black and white penguin with a goose like body. It also has very stubby black wings. It was about two or three feet long.

Reason for being extinct: They can't run and could not fly either which makes the easy prey. They are also hunted for it's skin and meat.

Fossils??: None.