Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought

Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

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

New insights on ancient cetacean movement patterns from oxygenisotope analyses of a Mediterranean Pleistocene whale barnacle

(2018) Alberto Collareta et al.   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

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

A new Miocene baleen whale from Peru deciphers the dawn of cetotheriids

(2017) Felix G. Marx et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Fossil marine vertebrates of Cerro Los Quesos: Distribution of cetaceans, seals, crocodiles, seabirds, sharks, and bony fish in a late Miocene locality of the Pisco Basin, Peru

(2016) Giovanni Bianucci et al.   Journal of Maps

The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand

(2015) Cheng-Hsiu Tsai et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity

(2015) F. G. Marx et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

(2014) Joe Roman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record

(2011) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

The Comparative Osteology of the Petrotympanic Complex (Ear Region) of Extant Baleen Whales (Cetacea: Mysticeti)

(2011) Eric G. Ekdale et al.   PLoS One

What Happened to Gray Whales during the Pleistocene? The Ecological Impact of Sea-Level Change on Benthic Feeding Areas in the North Pacific Ocean

(2011) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURE

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE