A cetacean limb from the Middle Eocene of Ukraine sheds light on mammalian adaptations to life in water

Rapid growth in Late Cretaceous sea turtles reveals life history strategies similar to extant leatherbacks

(2023) Laura E. Wilson   PeerJ

Gross and microscopic anatomy of a tibia tentatively attributed to a cetacean from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with a note on the artiodactyl Anoplotherium and on the perissodactyl Lophiodon

(2023) Svitozar Davydenko et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Comparative postcranial osteohistology and bone histovariability of aquatic and terrestrial turtles: the case of the South American Phrynops hilarii , Hydromedusa tectifera (Pleurodira, Chelidae), and Chelonoidis chilensis (Cryptodira, Testudinidae)

(2022) Maria Eugenia Pereyra   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

A Giant Eocene Whale from Ukraine Uncovers Early Cetacean Adaptations to the Fully Aquatic Life

(2021) Svitozar Davydenko et al.   Evolutionary Biology

The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods

(2021) Susana Gutarra et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Convergent Evolution of Swimming Adaptations in Modern Whales Revealed by a Large Macrophagous Dolphin from the Oligocene of South Carolina

(2020) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans

(2019) Olivier Lambert et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mystacodon selenensis, the earliest known toothed mysticete (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru: anatomy, phylogeny, and feeding adaptations

(2019) Christian de Muizon et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

The Hind Limbs of Sobrarbesiren cardieli (Eocene, Northeastern Spain) and New Insights into the Locomotion Capabilities of the Quadrupedal Sirenians

(2019) Ester Díaz-Berenguer et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture

(2019) Michael R McGowen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Aegicetus gehennae, a new late Eocene protocetid (Cetacea, Archaeoceti) from Wadi Al Hitan, Egypt, and the transition to tail-powered swimming in whales

(2019) Philip D. Gingerich et al.   PLoS One

Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

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

Generalized Osteosclerotic Condition in the Skeleton of Nanophoca vitulinoides, a Dwarf Seal from the Miocene of Belgium

(2018) Leonard Dewaele et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time

(2018) Grégoire Métais et al.   PLoS One

The anatomy and phylogenetic affinities ofCynthiacetus peruvianus, a largeDorudon-like basilosaurid (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru

(2017) Manuel Martínez-Cáceres et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

The fibular meniscus of the kangaroo as an adaptation against external tibial rotation during saltatorial locomotion

(2017) Adrian C. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Control surfaces of aquatic vertebrates: active and passive design and function

(2017) Frank E. Fish et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Skeleton of an unusual, cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey

(2017) A. Murat Maga et al.   PLoS One

Eocene Basilosaurid Whales from the La Meseta Formation, Marambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctica

(2016) MÓNica R. Buono et al.   AMEGHINIANA

Secondary Evolution of Aquatic Propulsion in Higher Vertebrates: Validation and Prospect

(2016) Frank E. Fish   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Transition of Eocene Whales from Land to Sea: Evidence from Bone Microstructure

(2015) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   PLoS One

Naming an Innominate: Pelvis and Hindlimbs of Miocene Whales Give an Insight into Evolution and Homology of Cetacean Pelvic Girdle

(2014) Pavel Gol’din   Evolutionary Biology

Biozonation and biochronology of Paleogene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

(2014) Claudia Agnini et al.   NEWSLETTERS ON STRATIGRAPHY

Basilotritus uheni, a new cetacean (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the late middle Eocene of eastern Europe

(2013) Pavel Gol'din et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Bone Inner Structure Suggests Increasing Aquatic Adaptations in Desmostylia (Mammalia, Afrotheria)

(2013) Shoji Hayashi et al.   PLoS One

Bone histology of aquatic reptiles: what does it tell us about secondary adaptation to an aquatic life?

(2012) Alexandra Houssaye   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Bone microanatomy and lifestyle: A descriptive approach

(2011) Michel Laurin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

“Pachyostosis” in aquatic amniotes: a review

(2009) Alexandra HOUSSAYE   Integrative Zoology

A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia

(2009) Natalia Rybczynski et al.   NATURE

New Protocetid Whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on Land, Precocial Development, and Sexual Dimorphism

(2009) Philip D. Gingerich et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of bone microanatomy of the tetrapod tibia and its use in palaeobiological inference

(2008) A. KRILOFF et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clade, Pelagiceti

(2008) Mark D. Uhen   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY