A review and reappraisal of the specific gravities of present and past multicellular organisms, with an emphasis on tetrapods

Determining the Largest Known Land Animal: A Critical Comparison of Differing Methods for Restoring the Volume and Mass of Extinct Animals

(2020) Gregory Paul   ANNALS OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM

Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur

(2020) Nizar Ibrahim et al.   NATURE

Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco

(2020) Nizar Ibrahim et al.   ZooKeys

Differing trabecular bone architecture in dinosaurs and mammals contribute to stiffness and limits on bone strain

(2020) Trevor G. Aguirre et al.   PLoS One

Systemic distribution of medullary bone in the avian skeleton: ground truthing criteria for the identification of reproductive tissues in extinct Avemetatarsalia

(2019) Aurore Canoville et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Pneumatic Foramina in Pterosaur Vertebrae

(2019) RICHARD BUCHMANN et al.   ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS

Are there marrow cavities in Pleistocene elephant limb bones, and was marrow available to early humans? New CT scan results from the site of Castel di Guido (Italy)

(2019) Giovanni Boschian et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Rethinking the Effects of Body Size on the Study of Brain Size Evolution

(2019) Enrique Font et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Modeling The Skeleton Weight of an Adult Caucasian Man

(2018) Maia Avtandilashvili et al.   HEALTH PHYSICS

A “bloat-and-float” taphonomic model best explains the upside-down preservation of ankylosaurs

(2018) Jordan C. Mallon et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Body density of humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) in feeding aggregations estimated from hydrodynamic gliding performance

(2018) Tomoko Narazaki et al.   PLoS One

Physical properties of kumquat fruit

(2018) F. Jaliliantabar et al.   International Agrophysics

The Smallest Diplodocid Skull Reveals Cranial Ontogeny and Growth-Related Dietary Changes in the Largest Dinosaurs

(2018) D. Cary Woodruff et al.   Scientific Reports

A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic Spinosaurus Stromer, 1915 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

(2018) Donald M. Henderson   PeerJ

Determination of physical and mechanical properties of carrot in order to reduce waste during harvesting and post-harvesting

(2018) Ahmad Jahanbakhshi et al.   Food Science & Nutrition

The respiratory mechanics of the yacare caiman (Caiman yacare Daudine)

(2018) Michelle N. Reichert et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A quantitative evaluation of physical and digital approaches to centre of mass estimation

(2017) Sophie Macaulay et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals the morphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings

(2017) Caleb M. Brown   PeerJ

Adaptive Patterns in Aquatic Amniote Bone Microanatomy—More Complex than Previously Thought

(2016) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Body density and diving gas volume of the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

(2016) Patrick Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Nuchal ligament reconstructions in diplodocid sauropods support horizontal neck feeding postures

(2016) D. Cary Woodruff   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan

(2016) Karl T. Bates et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Downsizing a giant: re-evaluatingDreadnoughtusbody mass

(2015) Karl T. Bates et al.   Biology Letters

Body mass estimates of an exceptionally complete Stegosaurus (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): comparing volumetric and linear bivariate mass estimation methods

(2015) C. A. Brassey et al.   Biology Letters

Unexpected Positive Buoyancy in Deep Sea Sharks, Hexanchus griseus, and a Echinorhinus cookei

(2015) Itsumi Nakamura et al.   PLoS One

Exploring the Relationship between Skeletal Mass and Total Body Mass in Birds

(2015) Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone et al.   PLoS One

Wood Specific Gravity Variations and Biomass of Central African Tree Species: The Simple Choice of the Outer Wood

(2015) Jean-François Bastin et al.   PLoS One

Postcranial Pneumaticity and Bone Structure in Two Clades of Neognath Birds

(2014) Sarah C. Gutzwiller et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

On Dinosaur Growth

(2014) Gregory M. Erickson   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Buoyancy Control in Cold-Submerged Painted Turtles: Implications for Overwintering Physiology and Behavior

(2014) Elizabeth A. Cantrell et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Estimation of Whole Volume of Green Shelled Mussels using their Geometrical Attributes Obtained from Image Analysis

(2014) Zayde Alçiçek et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD PROPERTIES

Physical and chemical characteristics of goldenberry fruit (Physalis peruviana L.)

(2014) Gökçen Yıldız et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-MYSORE

What drove reversions to quadrupedality in ornithischian dinosaurs? Testing hypotheses using centre of mass modelling

(2014) Susannah C. R. Maidment et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Skeleton of a Late Pleistocene steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) from Zhalainuoer, Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China

(2014) Asier Larramendi   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Air Space Proportion in Pterosaur Limb Bones Using Computed Tomography and Its Implications for Previous Estimates of Pneumaticity

(2014) Elizabeth G. Martin et al.   PLoS One

Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur

(2014) N. Ibrahim et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying the effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs

(2014) Michael P. Taylor   PeerJ

Swim bladder function and buoyancy control in pink snapper (Pagrus auratus) and mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus)

(2013) John Stewart et al.   FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Detrimental effects of ocean acidification on the economically important Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum)

(2013) L. Bramanti et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Homology of lungs and gas bladders: Insights from arterial vasculature

(2013) Sarah Longo et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Unidirectional pulmonary airflow patterns in the savannah monitor lizard

(2013) Emma R. Schachner et al.   NATURE

Sauropod Necks: Are They Really for Heat Loss?

(2013) Donald M. Henderson   PLoS One

A Higher Tidal Volume May Be Used for Athletes according to Measured FVC

(2013) Pavlos Myrianthefs et al.   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks

(2013) Michael P. Taylor et al.   PeerJ

Minimum convex hull mass estimations of complete mounted skeletons

(2012) W. I. Sellers et al.   Biology Letters

Reassessment of the Evidence for Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Triassic Archosaurs, and the Early Evolution of the Avian Respiratory System

(2012) Richard J. Butler et al.   PLoS One

A universal approach to estimate biomass and carbon stock in tropical forests using generic allometric models

(2011) G Vieilledent et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The specific gravity of mesopelagic fish from the northeastern Pacific Ocean and its implications for acoustic backscatter

(2011) P. Davison   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Northern elephant seals adjust gliding and stroking patterns with changes in buoyancy: validation of at-sea metrics of body density

(2011) K. Aoki et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

Environmental implications of skeletal micro-density and porosity variation in two scleractinian corals

(2011) Erik Caroselli et al.   ZOOLOGY

Lung volumes in giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis

(2010) G. Mitchell et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Effect of yolk utilization on the specific gravity of chokka squid (Loligo reynaudii) paralarvae: implications for dispersal on the Agulhas Bank, South Africa

(2010) R. S. Martins et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Quantification of porosity in Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891) using X-ray micro-computed tomography techniques

(2010) Ronan C. Roche et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Predicting the buoyancy, equilibrium and potential swimming ability of giraffes by computational analysis

(2010) Donald M. Henderson et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Pterosaur body mass estimates from three-dimensional mathematical slicing

(2010) Donald M. Henderson   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Crab carapace hydrodynamics

(2010) R. W. Blake   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The thickness of the walls of tubular bones

(2010) J. D. Currey et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Cartilaginous Epiphyses in Extant Archosaurs and Their Implications for Reconstructing Limb Function in Dinosaurs

(2010) Casey M. Holliday et al.   PLoS One

On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness

(2010) Mark P. Witton et al.   PLoS One

Species of plated dinosaur Stegosaurus (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic) of western USA: new type species designation needed

(2010) Peter M. Galton   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Variation in Center of Mass Estimates for Extant Sauropsids and its Importance for Reconstructing Inertial Properties of Extinct Archosaurs

(2009) Vivian Allen et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Body density estimates from upper-body skinfold thicknesses compared to air-displacement plethysmography

(2009) Kimberly J. Shafer et al.   CLINICAL NUTRITION

Quantitative Anatomy of the Trachea of the Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi)

(2009) Ivana Cano et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Implications of an avian-style respiratory system for gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs

(2009) Steven F. Perry et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Hippopotamus Underwater Locomotion: Reduced-Gravity Movements for a Massive Mammal

(2009) Brittany L. Coughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Allometry of the leg bones of moas (Dinornithes) and other birds

(2009) R. McN. Alexander   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The Indian Ocean giant tortoise Testudo gigantea on Aldabra

(2009) R. Gaymer   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Respiratory Evolution Facilitated the Origin of Pterosaur Flight and Aerial Gigantism

(2009) Leon P. A. M. Claessens et al.   PLoS One

Mechanical implications of pneumatic neck vertebrae in sauropod dinosaurs

(2009) D. Schwarz-Wings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

RADIOGRAPHIC QUANTIFICATION OF TRACHEAL DIMENSIONS OF THE NORMAL THOROUGHBRED HORSE

(2009) ANN CARSTENS et al.   VETERINARY RADIOLOGY & ULTRASOUND

Buoyancy Regulation in Two Species of Freshwater Turtle

(2008) Charles C. Peterson et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Recruitment of the diaphragmaticus, ischiopubis and other respiratory muscles to control pitch and roll in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

(2008) T. J. Uriona et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY