Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale Perucetus colossus

by Ryosuke Motani, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2024-02-01

Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whale...

by Alexandra T Boersma, Nicholas D Pyenson
Published 2015-01-01

New evidence for the antiquity of Desmostylus (Desmostylia) from the Skooner Gulch Formation of California

by Kumiko Matsui, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2023-06-01

Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea

by Alexandra T. Boersma, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2016-08-01

Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of sound reception pathways in cetaceans.

by Maya Yamato, Nicholas D Pyenson
Published 2015-01-01

What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean.

by Nicholas D Pyenson, David R Lindberg
Published 2011-01-01

What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation

by Ana Valenzuela-Toro, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2019-11-01

Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution

by Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2018-01-01

Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales

by Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2021-07-01

Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California

by Matthew S. Leslie, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2019-10-01

What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla

by Sabrina L. Groves, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2021-02-01

Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years.

by Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Daryl P Domning, Nicholas D Pyenson
Published 2012-01-01

Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities

by B. K. Shipps, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2019-07-01

A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea)

by Alexandra T. Boersma, Matthew R. McCurry, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2017-01-01

New data from the first discovered paleoparadoxiid (Desmostylia) specimen shed light into the morphological variation of the genus Neoparadoxia

by Kumiko Matsui, Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2022-08-01

Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales

by Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Mark D. Uhen
Published 2022-07-01

Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana

by Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Maria H. Zicos, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2020-09-01

New Holocene grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) material from North Carolina: the most complete North Atlantic grey whale skeleton to date

by Alyson Fleming, Briana Pobiner, Savannah Maynor, David Webster, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Published 2022-07-01

Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans.

by Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Nicholas D Pyenson, Mark D Uhen, Christopher D Marshall
Published 2017-01-01

Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of ‘river dolphins’ in the Americas

by Nicholas D. Pyenson, Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, Carolina S. Gutstein, Holly Little, Dioselina Vigil, Aaron O’Dea
Published 2015-09-01