A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert

A late Miocene–early Pliocene baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

(2016) Romala Govender et al.   ALCHERINGA

Inside baleen: Exceptional microstructure preservation in a late Miocene whale skeleton from Peru

(2016) Anna Gioncada et al.   GEOLOGY

Fragilicetus velponi: a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

(2016) Michelangelo Bisconti et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A new species ofMetopocetus(Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of the Netherlands

(2016) Felix Georg Marx et al.   PeerJ

Vascularization of the Gray Whale Palate (Cetacea, Mysticeti,Eschrichtius robustus): Soft Tissue Evidence for an Alveolar Source of Blood to Baleen

(2015) Eric G. Ekdale et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Using morphology to infer physiology: case studies on rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae)

(2015) Jeremy A. Goldbogen et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Stretchy nerves are an essential component of the extreme feeding mechanism of rorqual whales

(2015) A. Wayne Vogl et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

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

Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

(2015) Giovanni Bianucci et al.   Journal of Maps

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

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

Lateralisation of aggressive displays in a tephritid fly

(2015) Giovanni Benelli et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Origin of the white sharkCarcharodon(Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru

(2015) DANA J. EHRET et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans

(2014) Robert W. Boessenecker   GEODIVERSITAS

Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea

(2014) N. D. Pyenson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new long-snouted species of the Miocene pontoporiid dolphinBrachydelphisand a review of the Mio-Pliocene marine mammal levels in the Sacaco Basin, Peru

(2013) Olivier Lambert et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

(2012) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   NATURE

Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size

(2012) Jean Potvin et al.   PLoS One

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships ofMiocaperea pulchra, the first fossil pygmy right whale genus and species (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Neobalaenidae)

(2012) MICHELANGELO BISCONTI   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes

(2011) Alexandre Hassanin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae) from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden

(2011) Mark Bosselaers et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

Relaxed Clocks and Inferences of Heterogeneous Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution and Divergence Time Estimates across Whales and Dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea)

(2011) A. Dornburg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

The More the Merrier? A Large Cladistic Analysis of Mysticetes, and Comments on the Transition from Teeth to Baleen

(2010) Felix G. Marx   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Stirone River, northern Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

(2010) Michelangelo Bisconti   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Passive versus active engulfment: verdict from trajectory simulations of lunge-feeding fin whales Balaenoptera physalus

(2009) J. Potvin et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Divergence date estimation and a comprehensive molecular tree of extant cetaceans

(2009) Michael R. McGowen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Paleontology, Genomics, and Combined-Data Phylogenetics: Can Molecular Data Improve Phylogeny Estimation for Fossil Taxa?

(2009) John J. Wiens   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Radiation of Extant Cetaceans Driven by Restructuring of the Oceans

(2009) Mette E. Steeman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales

(2008) Thomas A. Deméré et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Exceptional occurrence of fossil baleen in shallow marine sediments of the Neogene Pisco Formation, Southern Peru

(2007) Raúl Esperante et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY