Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays

A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

(2018) R. Ewan Fordyce et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Microplastics: No Small Problem for Filter-Feeding Megafauna

(2018) Elitza S. Germanov et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The old and the new plankton: ecological replacement of associations of mollusc plankton and giant filter feeders after the Cretaceous?

(2018) Amane Tajika et al.   PeerJ

A Pennsylvanian ‘supershark’ from Texas

(2017) John G. Maisey et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Direct evidence of trophic interaction between a large lamniform shark, Cretodus sp., and a marine turtle from the Cretaceous of northeastern Italy

(2017) Jacopo Amalfitano et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics

(2017) Graham J. Slater et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of gigantism in active marine predators

(2017) Humberto G. Ferrón et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

The Pliocene marine megafauna extinction and its impact on functional diversity

(2017) Catalina Pimiento et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Regional endothermy as a trigger for gigantism in some extinct macropredatory sharks

(2017) Humberto G. Ferrón   PLoS One

A multiple variance Brownian motion framework for estimating variable rates and inferring ancestral states

(2016) Jeroen B. Smaers et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

(2016) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   Biology Letters

Highly specialized suspension-feeding bony fish Rhinconichthys (Actinopterygii: Pachycormiformes) from the mid-Cretaceous of the United States, England, and Japan

(2016) Bruce A. Schumacher et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Testing species’ deviation from allometric predictions using the phylogenetic regression

(2016) J. B. Smaers et al.   EVOLUTION

Geographical distribution patterns of Carcharocles megalodon over time reveal clues about extinction mechanisms

(2016) Catalina Pimiento et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade

(2016) Kenshu Shimada et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Bony cranial ornamentation linked to rapid evolution of gigantic theropod dinosaurs

(2016) Terry A. Gates et al.   Nature Communications

Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life

(2016) Geerat J. Vermeij   PLoS One

The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record

(2015) Allison Y Hsiang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States

(2015) Kenshu Shimada et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Body-size trends of the extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: a deep-time perspective on marine apex predators

(2015) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A Gigantic Shark from the Lower Cretaceous Duck Creek Formation of Texas

(2015) Joseph A. Frederickson et al.   PLoS One

Comparative analyses of animal-tracking data reveal ecological significance of endothermy in fishes

(2015) Yuuki Y. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna

(2015) Craig R. McClain et al.   PeerJ

Comparison of the Structure and Composition of the Branchial Filters in Suspension Feeding Elasmobranchs

(2014) E.W. Misty Paig-Tran et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

A new fossil megamouth shark (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae) from the Oligocene-Miocene of the western United States

(2014) Kenshu Shimada et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

When Did Carcharocles megalodon Become Extinct? A New Analysis of the Fossil Record

(2014) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

A Novel Bayesian Method for Inferring and Interpreting the Dynamics of Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Comparative Data

(2014) Josef C. Uyeda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays

(2014) Nicholas K Dulvy et al.   eLife

Geographic and stratigraphic distribution of the Late Cretaceous suspension-feeding bony fishBonnerichthys gladius(Teleostei, Pachycormiformes)

(2013) Matt Friedman et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

How Large Should Whales Be?

(2013) Aaron Clauset   PLoS One

treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies

(2012) Stephen A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

rfishbase: exploring, manipulating and visualizing FishBase data from R

(2012) C. Boettiger et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Early Miocene chondrichthyans from the Culebra Formation, Panama: A window into marine vertebrate faunas before closure the Central American Seaway

(2012) Catalina Pimiento et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Diversity and Evolution of Body Size in Fishes

(2011) James S. Albert et al.   Evolutionary Biology

How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time

(2011) F. A. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climates

(2011) R. Amiot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parallel evolutionary trajectories underlie the origin of giant suspension-feeding whales and bony fishes

(2011) M. Friedman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantitative Computed Tomography of Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Mandibles: Mechanical Implications for Rorqual Lunge-Feeding

(2010) Daniel J. Field et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Trophic level scales positively with body size in fishes

(2010) Tamara N. Romanuk et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

(2010) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURE

100-Million-Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the Mesozoic Seas

(2010) M. Friedman et al.   SCIENCE

Fossils provide better estimates of ancestral body size than do extant taxa in fishes

(2009) James S. Albert et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

A new skeletal remain of the durophagous shark, Ptychodus mortoni, from the Upper Cretaceous of North America: an indication of gigantic body size

(2009) Kenshu Shimada et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Energetics, body size, and the limits to endothermy

(2009) BRIAN K. MCNAB   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Resources and energetics determined dinosaur maximal size

(2009) B. K. McNab   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ontogenetic parameters and life history strategies of the late Cretaceous lamniform shark,Cretoxyrhina mantelli, based on vertebral growth increments

(2008) Kenshu Shimada   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The Evolution and Distribution of Species Body Size

(2008) A. Clauset et al.   SCIENCE