The evolution of foraging capacity and gigantism in cetaceans

Marine-terminating glaciers sustain high productivity in Greenland fjords

(2017) Lorenz Meire et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evolutionary aspects of the development of teeth and baleen in the bowhead whale

(2017) J. G. M. Thewissen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid

(2017) Felix G. Marx et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Kinematics of ram filter feeding and beat–glide swimming in the northern anchovyEngraulis mordax

(2017) Nicholas Carey et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Did the giant extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon target small prey? Bite marks on marine mammal remains from the late Miocene of Peru

(2017) Alberto Collareta et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Extinction risk is most acute for the world’s largest and smallest vertebrates

(2017) William J. Ripple et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Revisiting the behavioural framework of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals

(2017) Sarah S. Kienle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A behavioural framework for the evolution of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals

(2017) David P. Hocking et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

(2017) Yasuhiko Naito et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Ultrasonic hearing and echolocation in the earliest toothed whales

(2016) Travis Park et al.   Biology Letters

The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

(2016) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   Biology Letters

The Origin of High-Frequency Hearing in Whales

(2016) Morgan Churchill et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Kinematic Diversity in Rorqual Whale Feeding Mechanisms

(2016) David E. Cade et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Anna Gioncada et al.   GEOLOGY

How to Build a Deep Diver: The Extreme Morphology of Mesoplodonts

(2016) D. Ann Pabst 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

Predator-guided sampling reveals biotic structure in the bathypelagic

(2016) Kelly J. Benoit-Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans

(2016) J. L. Payne et al.   SCIENCE

Fish mouths as engineering structures for vortical cross-step filtration

(2016) S. Laurie Sanderson et al.   Nature Communications

Multiple-stage decisions in a marine central-place forager

(2016) Ari S. Friedlaender et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Baleen Hydrodynamics and Morphology of Cross-Flow Filtration in Balaenid Whale Suspension Feeding

(2016) Alexander J. Werth et al.   PLoS One

Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life

(2016) Geerat J. Vermeij   PLoS One

White Sharks Exploit the Sun during Predatory Approaches

(2015) Charlie Huveneers et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Sperm whale echolocation behaviour reveals a directed, prior-based search strategy informed by prey distribution

(2015) A. Fais et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Humpback whale diets respond to variance in ocean climate and ecosystem conditions in the California Current

(2015) Alyson H. Fleming et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior of Sailfish during Predator–Prey Interactions using High-Speed Video and Accelerometry

(2015) Stefano Marras et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Gait switches in deep-diving beaked whales: biomechanical strategies for long-duration dives

(2015) L. M. Martin Lopez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Body-size trends of the extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: a deep-time perspective on marine apex predators

(2015) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Comparative analyses of animal-tracking data reveal ecological significance of endothermy in fishes

(2015) Yuuki Y. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No deep diving: evidence of predation on epipelagic fish for a stem beaked whale from the Late Miocene of Peru

(2015) Olivier Lambert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) optimize foraging efficiency by balancing oxygen use and energy gain as a function of prey density

(2015) E. L. Hazen et al.   Science Advances

Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales

(2015) Alexandra T. Boersma et al.   PLoS One

Sensory Biology: Echolocation from Click to Call, Mouth to Wing

(2014) M. Brock Fenton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Feeding rates and under-ice foraging strategies of the smallest lunge filter feeder, the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)

(2014) A. S. Friedlaender et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation

(2014) Jonathan H. Geisler et al.   NATURE

When Did Carcharocles megalodon Become Extinct? A New Analysis of the Fossil Record

(2014) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PLoS One

How sailfish use their bills to capture schooling prey

(2014) P. Domenici et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans

(2014) Jon R. Hawkings et al.   Nature Communications

Echolocation in Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris)

(2013) P. T. Madsen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables high extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales

(2013) R. E. Shadwick et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Novel locomotor muscle design in extreme deep-diving whales

(2013) B. P. Velten et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Flow-dependent porosity and other biomechanical properties of mysticete baleen

(2013) A. J. Werth   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The filter pads and filtration mechanisms of the devil rays: Variation at macro and microscopic scales

(2013) E.W. Misty Paig-Tran et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Greenland meltwater as a significant and potentially bioavailable source of iron to the ocean

(2013) Maya P. Bhatia et al.   Nature Geoscience

Functional Convergence in Bat and Toothed Whale Biosonars

(2013) P. T. Madsen et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Thresher Sharks Use Tail-Slaps as a Hunting Strategy

(2013) Simon P. Oliver et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of Mammalian Diving Capacity Traced by Myoglobin Net Surface Charge

(2013) S. Mirceta et al.   SCIENCE

Mandible allometry in extant and fossil Balaenopteridae (Cetacea: Mammalia): the largest vertebrate skeletal element and its role in rorqual lunge feeding

(2012) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Underwater acrobatics by the world's largest predator: 360  rolling manoeuvres by lunge-feeding blue whales

(2012) J. A. Goldbogen et al.   Biology Letters

Keeping momentum with a mouthful of water: behavior and kinematics of humpback whale lunge feeding

(2012) M. Simon et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Active hunting by deep-diving sperm whales: 3D dive profiles and maneuvers during bursts of speed

(2012) K Aoki et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Shark predation on North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the southeastern United States calving ground

(2012) Jessica K. D. Taylor et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

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

Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) use suction and filter feeding when hunting small prey underwater

(2012) David P. Hocking et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Life History of Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus) (G. Cuvier, 1812) in the Faroe Islands

(2012) Dorete Bloch   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Oceanographic and Biological Effects of Shoaling of the Oxygen Minimum Zone

(2011) William F. Gilly et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Underwater components of humpback whale bubble-net feeding behaviour

(2011) David Wiley et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Scaling of lunge-feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity

(2011) Jeremy A. Goldbogen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

In pursuit of Irving and Scholander: a review of oxygen store management in seals and penguins

(2011) P. J. Ponganis et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL 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

Body size dependence of euphausiid spatial patchiness

(2011) Moira Décima et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Super-Aggregations of Krill and Humpback Whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

(2011) Douglas P. Nowacek et al.   PLoS One

Parallel evolutionary trajectories underlie the origin of giant suspension-feeding whales and bony fishes

(2011) M. Friedman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mesoscale structure and oceanographic determinants of krill hotspots in the California Current: Implications for trophic transfer and conservation

(2011) Jarrod A. Santora et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Hypoxemic and ischemic tolerance in emperor penguins

(2010) T. Zenteno-Savin et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density

(2010) J. A. Goldbogen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURE

Calcification provides mechanical reinforcement to whale baleen  -keratin

(2010) L. J. Szewciw et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

100-Million-Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the Mesozoic Seas

(2010) M. Friedman et al.   SCIENCE

Feeding anatomy, filter-feeding rate, and diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus during surface ram filter feeding off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

(2010) Philip J. Motta et al.   ZOOLOGY

Extreme hypoxemic tolerance and blood oxygen depletion in diving elephant seals

(2009) Jessica U. Meir et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

PHYLOGENETICALLY INFORMED ANALYSIS OF THE ALLOMETRY OF MAMMALIAN BASAL METABOLIC RATE SUPPORTS NEITHER GEOMETRIC NOR QUARTER-POWER SCALING

(2009) Craig R. White et al.   EVOLUTION

Comparative feeding kinematics and performance of odontocetes: belugas, Pacific white-sided dolphins and long-finned pilot whales

(2009) E. A. Kane et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cooperative prey herding by the pelagic dolphin, Stenella longirostris

(2009) Kelly J. Benoit-Bird et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

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

Behaviour and kinematics of continuous ram filtration in bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus)

(2009) M. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Skull and buccal cavity allometry increase mass-specific engulfment capacity in fin whales

(2009) J. A. Goldbogen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modes and scaling in aquatic locomotion

(2008) S. Vogel   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Cheetahs of the deep sea: deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands)

(2008) Natacha Aguilar Soto et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Fight or flight: antipredator strategies of baleen whales

(2008) JOHN K. B. FORD et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

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