Tag Archives: extinction

On Substack

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Roger Gosden

I have been writing a Substack titled What’s Hot in Fertility? since March 2024. It offers “digestible news and views about reproductive health and science” with excursions into politics and society.If this interests you, please sign up for illustrated posts … Continue reading →

Posted in Fertility, Health | Tagged Cancer, Cats and dogs, Embryos, extinction, infertility, IVF, Reproductive health | Comments Off

Humans Boom while Birds Crash

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Roger Gosden

The United Nations estimates that our population reached 8 billion this week. In 1900, it was 1.6 billion but by the turn of the 21st century, we had grown to over 6 billion. That is nearly 2 billion more mouths … Continue reading →

Posted in Birding, Nature | Tagged extinction, Murmuration, Starling, world population | Comments Off

Mastodon in Our Town

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Roger Gosden

Not Mastodon the heavy metal band from Atlanta, but a heavy, leathery mastodon from Virginia. It is the first found east of the Blue Ridge. A local bricklayer was hunting on private land one day in 1983 when he found … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia, Nature | Tagged College of William & Mary, elephant, extinction, fossil, George Cuvier, mammoth, Mammut americanum, mastodon | 2 Comments

The Return of the Native

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Roger Gosden

Apologies to anyone who recently visited my blogs posted between January and March 2013 and found the pictures were missing. This was a widespread problem affecting WordPress bloggers, but the images have now been reloaded. *********************************** A large black-and-white bird … Continue reading →