Nicholas Pyenson

Publications

• PALEONTOLOGY When sharks nearly disappeared
• Early development and orientation of the acoustic funnel provides insight into the evolution of sound reception pathways in cetaceans
• The rise of ocean giants: Maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
• Decoupling tooth loss from the evolution of baleen in whales
• Fossil mysticeti from the pleistocene of Santa Maria Island, Azores (Northeast atlantic ocean), and the prevalence of fossil cetaceans on oceanic islands
• Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea
• Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea
• High frequency echolocation, ear morphology, and the marine-freshwater transition: A comparative study of extant and extinct toothed whales
• A new dwarf seal from the late Neogene of South America and the evolution of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere
• Late pleistocene gray whales (eschrichtius robustus) offshore georgia, u.s.a., and the antiquity of gray whale migration in the north atlantic ocean
• Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales
• Osteological correlates and phylogenetic analysis of deep diving in living and extinct pinnipeds: What good are big eyes?
• Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) fromthe Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of 'river dolphins' in the Americas
• Marine tetrapod macroevolution: Physical and biological drivers on 250Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystems
• Stretchy nerves are an essential component of the extreme feeding mechanism of rorqual whales
• Elephant seal (Mirounga sp.) from the Pleistocene of the Antofagasta Region, northern Chile
• Using morphology to infer physiology: Case studies on rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae)
• Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene
• Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales
• Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean
• The dilemma of trade samples and the importance of museum vouchers caveats from a study on the extinction of Steller's sea cow: A comment on Crerar et al. (2014)
• 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 Whales
• Extensively remodeled, fractured cetacean tympanic bullae show that whales can survive traumatic injury to the ears
• Mandible allometry in extant and fossil Balaenopteridae (Cetacea: Mammalia): The largest vertebrate skeletal element and its role in rorqual lunge feeding
• Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years
• Oroclinal bending of the Juan Fernández Ridge suggested by geohistory analysis of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, north-central Chile
• Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile
• The Antiquity of Riverine Adaptations in Iniidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) Documented by a Humerus from the Late Miocene of the Ituzaingó Formation, Argentina
• Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables high extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales
• What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation
• A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea)
• What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla
• Borealodon osedax , a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities
• Salishicetus meadi , a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution
• Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics
• Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales
• Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California
• Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia: Dugongs and Manatees by Helene Marsh, Thomas J. O'Shea, and John E. Reynolds
• Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana
• Policy Tales and the Secret Life of Whales
• Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants
• Formation of the Isthmus of Panama
• Where to find fantastic beasts at sea
• The Ecological Rise of Whales Chronicled by the Fossil Record
• How to Produce Translational Research to Guide Arctic Policy
• Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans
• Hyper-longirostry and kinematic disparity in extinct toothed whales
• The repeated evolution of dental apicobasal ridges in aquatic-feeding mammals and reptiles
• Structure and Function in the Lunge Feeding Apparatus: Mechanical Properties of the Fin Whale Mandible
• Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales
• Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record
• Diversity estimates, biases, and historiographic effects: Resolving cetacean diversity in the tertiary
• Treating medieval manuscripts as fossils [4] (multiple letters)
• Reconstructing cetacean brain evolution using computed tomography
• Evolutionary patterns in Cetacea: Fishing up prey size through deep time
• Carcasses on the coastline: Measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean
• New middle Eocene whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru
• New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the iterative evolution of feeding ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous
• Miocene whale-fall from California demonstrates that cetacean size did not determine the evolution of modern whale-fall communities
• Scaling of lunge-feeding performance in rorqual whales: Mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity
• Big gulps require high drag for fin whale lunge feeding
• Comment on "Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales"
• Requiem for lipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction
• The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: Insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology
• Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function
• What happened to gray whales during the pleistocene? the ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the north pacific ocean
• "Snagging" teeth and premolar homologies in paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia: desmostylia)
• Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: Efficiency dependence on krill density
• Things that go bump in the night: Evolutionary interactions between cephalopods and cetaceans in the tertiary
• Tortonian pontoporiid odontocetes from the eastern North Sea
• Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: A case study from the Miocene of Nevada
• Erratum: Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: Efficiency dependence on krill density (Journal of Experimental Biology (2011) 214 (131-146))
• Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum
• Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements
• Brain size evolution in whales and dolphins: new data from fossil mysticetes
• Early and fast rise of Mesozoic ocean giants
• Oh, the shark has such teeth: Did megatooth sharks play a larger role in prehistoric food webs?
• Diplomacy for the world's hottest sea
• New Holocene grey whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) material from North Carolina: the most complete North Atlantic grey whale skeleton to date
• New data from the first discovered paleoparadoxiid (Desmostylia) specimen shed light into the morphological variation of the genus Neoparadoxia
• Fossil Sirenia from the Pleistocene of Qatar: new questions about the antiquity of sea cows in the Gulf Region
• Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator
• Feeding morphology and body size shape resource partitioning in an eared seal community
• Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales
• New Seal (Carnivora, Phocidae) Record from the Late Miocene–Pliocene of Guafo Island, Southern Chile
• Is the hyoid a constraint on innovation? A study in convergence driving feeding in fish-shaped marine tetrapods
• Regaining creativity in science: insights from conversation
• New evidence for the antiquity of Desmostylus (Desmostylia) from the Skooner Gulch Formation of California
• How Whales Dive, Feast, and Fast: The Ecophysiological Drivers and Limits of Foraging in the Evolution of Cetaceans
• Unexpected decadal density-dependent shifts in California sea lion size, morphology, and foraging niche
• Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale Perucetus colossus
• Expanding ocean protection and peace: a window for science diplomacy in the Gulf
• Stable isotope evidence for resource partitioning in extinct marine carnivores
• How teeth, tusks and horny pads evolved together in sea cows