Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species

The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation

(2017) Daniel J. Field et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A new eomysticetid from the Oligocene Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand and a review of the Eomysticetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea)

(2016) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A Link No Longer Missing: New Evidence for the Cetotheriid Affinities of Caperea

(2016) Felix G. Marx et al.   PLoS One

The Pliocene hominin diversity conundrum: Do more fossils mean less clarity?

(2016) Yohannes Haile-Selassie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Severe Bone Loss as Part of the Life History Strategy of Bowhead Whales

(2016) John C. George et al.   PLoS One

Ancestor-descendant relationships in evolution: origin of the extant pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata

(2015) C.-H. Tsai et al.   Biology Letters

A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of ‘Mauicetus’lophocephalus Marples, 1956: Transitional baleen whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand

(2015) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Insights into the Evolution of Longevity from the Bowhead Whale Genome

(2015) Michael Keane et al.   Cell Reports

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

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

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

From Problem Taxa to Problem Solver: A New Miocene Family, Tranatocetidae, Brings Perspective on Baleen Whale Evolution

(2015) Pavel Gol’din et al.   PLoS One

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

(2014) Robert W. Boessenecker   GEODIVERSITAS

Predictive equations for the estimation of body size in seals and sea lions (Carnivora: Pinnipedia)

(2014) Morgan Churchill et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Intervertebral and Epiphyseal Fusion in the Postnatal Ontogeny of Cetaceans and Terrestrial Mammals

(2014) Meghan M. Moran et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Anatomy of a new cetotheriid genus and species from the Miocene of Herentals, Belgium, and the phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical relationships of Cetotheriidaes.s. (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)

(2014) Michelangelo Bisconti   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary trends in Triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

(2014) J. B. Scannella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Herpetocetus morrowi(Cetacea: Mysticeti), a new species of diminutive baleen whale from the Upper Pliocene (Piacenzian) of California, USA, with observations on the evolution and relationships of the Cetotheriidae

(2014) Joseph J. El Adli et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Taxonomic revision ofIsocetus depauwi(Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic ‘cetothere’ mysticetes

(2013) MICHELANGELO BISCONTI et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Growth and rapid early development of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis)

(2012) Sarah M. E. Fortune et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

The maximum rate of mammal evolution

(2012) A. R. Evans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Occipital Ossification of Balaenopteroid Mysticetes

(2011) Breda M. Walsh et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

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

New records of the fur seal Callorhinus (Carnivora: Otariidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene Rio Dell Formation of Northern California and comments on otariid dental evolution

(2011) Robert W. Boessenecker   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The systematics of right whales (Mysticeti: Balaenidae)

(2011) Morgan Churchill et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

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

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Big and Slow: Phylogenetic Estimates of Molecular Evolution in Baleen Whales (Suborder Mysticeti)

(2009) J. A. Jackson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Radiation of Extant Cetaceans Driven by Restructuring of the Oceans

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

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

Pliocene dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy, palaeoecology and sequence stratigraphy of the Tunnel-Canal Dock, Belgium

(2008) STIJN DE SCHEPPER et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A new porpoise (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Phocoenidae) from the Pliocene of the North Sea

(2008) Olivier Lambert   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

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

(2008) Mark D. Uhen   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new eschrichtiid genus (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Early Pliocene of northern Italy

(2008) MICHELANGELO BISCONTI   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY