Biting in the Miocene seas: estimation of the bite force of the macroraptorial sperm whale Zygophyseter varolai using finite element analysis

Comparing surface digitization techniques in palaeontology using visual perceptual metrics and distance computations between 3D meshes

(2021) Verónica Díez Díaz et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte

(2021) Giulia Bosio et al.   PLoS One

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

A new longirostrine sperm whale (Cetacea, Physeteroidea) from the lower Miocene of the Pisco Basin (southern coast of Peru)

(2020) Olivier Lambert et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Constructing and testing hypotheses of dinosaur foot motions from fossil tracks using digitization and simulation

(2020) Peter L. Falkingham et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Body, jaw, and dentition lengths of macrophagous lamniform sharks, and body size evolution in Lamniformes with special reference to ‘off-the-scale’ gigantism of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon

(2020) Kenshu Shimada et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Body dimensions of the extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon: a 2D reconstruction

(2020) Jack A. Cooper et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolution and Diversification of Delphinid Skull Shapes

(2020) Anders Galatius et al.   iScience

Decreasing Atmospheric CO 2 During the Late Miocene Cooling

(2020) Thomas Tanner et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Stomach contents of the archaeocete Basilosaurus isis: Apex predator in oceans of the late Eocene

(2019) Manja Voss et al.   PLoS One

The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific

(2019) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   PeerJ

The transition between Carcharocles chubutensis and Carcharocles megalodon (Otodontidae, Chondrichthyes): lateral cusplet loss through time

(2019) Victor J. Perez et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays

(2019) Catalina Pimiento et al.   EVOLUTION

Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought

(2019) Giovanni Bianucci et al.   Biology Letters

How to break a sperm whale's teeth: dental damage in a large Miocene physeteroid from the North Sea basin

(2019) Olivier Lambert et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The Role of Material Properties in Cetacean Hearing Models: Knowns and Unknowns

(2019) Andrew A. Tubelli et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Abundance and distribution of the white shark in the Mediterranean Sea

(2019) Stefano Moro et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

New paleoenvironmental insights on the Miocene condensed phosphatic layer of Salento (southern Italy) unlocked by the coral-mollusc fossil archive

(2018) Alessandro Vescogni et al.   FACIES

A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data

(2018) Peter L. Falkingham et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The mosasaur fossil record through the lens of fossil completeness

(2018) Daniel A. Driscoll et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The importance of muscle architecture in biomechanical reconstructions of extinct animals: a case study using Tyrannosaurus rex

(2018) Karl T. Bates et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

First record of a macroraptorial sperm whale (Cetacea, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Argentina

(2018) David Sebastián Piazza et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

The late Miocene elasmobranch assemblage from Cerro Colorado (Pisco Formation, Peru)

(2017) Walter Landini et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Movements of the white shark Carcharodon carcharias in the North Atlantic Ocean

(2017) GB Skomal et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

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

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

Movements of the white shark Carcharodon carcharias in the North Atlantic Ocean

(2017) GB Skomal et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Inferring ‘weak spots’ in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature

(2017) Daniel Madzia et al.   PeerJ

Photogrammetry for 3D digitizing bones of mounted skeletons: Potential and limits

(2016) Marine Fau et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary

(2016) Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Late Miocene global cooling and the rise of modern ecosystems

(2016) Timothy D. Herbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ultrastructure, biomechanical and chemical properties of the vestigial dentition of a Cuvier's beaked whale

(2016) C Loch et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

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

Bone-Breaking Bite Force of Basilosaurus isis (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Late Eocene of Egypt Estimated by Finite Element Analysis

(2015) Eric Snively et al.   PLoS One

Miocene phosphate-rich sediments in Salento (southern Italy)

(2015) Karl B. Föllmi et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

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

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

Enamel Ultrastructure in Fossil Cetaceans (Cetacea: Archaeoceti and Odontoceti)

(2015) Carolina Loch et al.   PLoS One

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

Functional anatomy and feeding biomechanics of a giant Upper Jurassic pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Weymouth Bay, Dorset, UK

(2014) Davide Foffa et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia

(2014) Robert L. Pitman et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Bony outgrowths on the jaws of an extinct sperm whale support macroraptorial feeding in several stem physeteroids

(2014) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Historical Photogrammetry: Bird's Paluxy River Dinosaur Chase Sequence Digitally Reconstructed as It Was prior to Excavation 70 Years Ago

(2014) Peter L. Falkingham et al.   PLoS One

Mechanical properties of dental tissues in dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinoidea and Inioidea)

(2013) Carolina Loch et al.   ARCHIVES OF ORAL BIOLOGY

Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators

(2013) MR Heupel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Paleoecology of archaeocete whales throughout the Eocene: Dietary adaptations revealed by microwear analysis

(2013) Julia M. Fahlke et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution

(2013) Michael J. Polcyn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

BIOMECHANICAL AND STRUCTURAL MODELING OF HEARING IN BALEEN WHALES

(2012) MAYA YAMATO et al.   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation

(2012) Gregory M. Erickson et al.   PLoS One

Ontogenetic and Among-Individual Variation in Foraging Strategies of Northeast Pacific White Sharks Based on Stable Isotope Analysis

(2012) Sora L. Kim et al.   PLoS One

Experimental and computational biomechanical characterisation of the tracheo-bronchial tree of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) during diving

(2011) Paola Bagnoli et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Finite element analysis of ursid cranial mechanics and the prediction of feeding behaviour in the extinct giant Agriotherium africanum

(2011) C. C. Oldfield et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Shark predation and tooth wear in a population of northeastern Pacific killer whales

(2010) JKB Ford et al.   Aquatic Biology

Of arcs and vaults: the biomechanics of bone-cracking in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)

(2010) JAIME B. TANNER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Dynamics of White Shark Predation on Pinnipeds in California: Effects of Prey Abundance

(2010) Adam C. Brown et al.   COPEIA

Redescription and rediagnosis of the tylosaurine mosasaurHainosaurus pembinensisNicholls, 1988, asTylosaurus pembinensis(Nicholls, 1988)

(2010) Timon S. Bullard et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Predation on gray whales and prolonged feeding on submerged carcasses by transient killer whales at Unimak Island, Alaska

(2010) LG Barrett-Lennard et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

(2010) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURE

A Comparison of the Jaw Mechanics in Hadrosaurid and Ceratopsid Dinosaurs Using Finite Element Analysis

(2009) Phil R. Bell et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

A biomechanical model of feeding kinematics for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Arthrodira, Placodermi)

(2009) Philip S. L. Anderson et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A new stem-sperm whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Latest Miocene of Peru

(2008) Olivier Lambert et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Three-dimensional computer analysis of white shark jaw mechanics: how hard can a great white bite?

(2008) S. Wroe et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) around the main Hawaiian Islands: Long-term site fidelity, inter-island movements, and association patterns

(2008) Robin W. Baird et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Effects of Gape and Tooth Position on Bite Force and Skull Stress in the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) Using a 3-Dimensional Finite Element Approach

(2008) Jason Bourke et al.   PLoS One