Formation of the Isthmus of Panama A O’Dea, HA Lessios, AG Coates, RI Eytan, SA Restrepo-Moreno, ... Science advances 2 (8), e1600883, 2016 | 864 | 2016 |
Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density JA Goldbogen, J Calambokidis, E Oleson, J Potvin, ND Pyenson, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 214 (1), 131-146, 2011 | 299 | 2011 |
Big gulps require high drag for fin whale lunge feeding JA Goldbogen, ND Pyenson, RE Shadwick Marine Ecology Progress Series 349, 289-301, 2007 | 194 | 2007 |
Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics GJ Slater, JA Goldbogen, ND Pyenson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1855), 20170546, 2017 | 177 | 2017 |
Reconstructing body size in extinct crown Cetacea (Neoceti) using allometry, phylogenetic methods and tests from the fossil record ND Pyenson, SN Sponberg Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18, 269-288, 2011 | 170 | 2011 |
Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene NP Kelley, ND Pyenson Science 348 (6232), aaa3716, 2015 | 157 | 2015 |
Scaling of lunge‐feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass‐specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity JA Goldbogen, J Calambokidis, DA Croll, MF McKenna, E Oleson, ... Functional Ecology 26 (1), 216-226, 2012 | 157 | 2012 |
Why whales are big but not bigger: physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants JA Goldbogen, DE Cade, DM Wisniewska, J Potvin, PS Segre, ... Science 366 (6471), 1367-1372, 2019 | 143 | 2019 |
The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology ND Pyenson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1724), 3608-3616, 2011 | 133 | 2011 |
Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements MS Savoca, MF Czapanskiy, SR Kahane-Rapport, WT Gough, ... Nature 599 (7883), 85-90, 2021 | 127 | 2021 |
New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the iterative evolution of feeding ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous JF Parham, ND Pyenson Journal of Paleontology 84 (2), 231-247, 2010 | 120 | 2010 |
Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales ND Pyenson, JA Goldbogen, AW Vogl, G Szathmary, RL Drake, ... Nature 485 (7399), 498-501, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea ND Pyenson, CS Gutstein, JF Parham, JP Le Roux, CC Chavarría, H Little, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1781), 20133316, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
Carcasses on the coastline: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean ND Pyenson Paleobiology 36 (3), 453-480, 2010 | 97 | 2010 |
Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function MF McKenna, TW Cranford, A Berta, ND Pyenson Marine Mammal Science 28 (4), 690-713, 2012 | 86 | 2012 |
What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean ND Pyenson, DR Lindberg PLoS One 6 (7), e21295, 2011 | 80 | 2011 |
Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past∼ 26 million years J Velez-Juarbe, DP Domning, ND Pyenson PLoS One 7 (2), e31294, 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum ND Pyenson, RB Irmis, JH Lipps, LG Barnes, ED Mitchell, SA McLeod Geology 37 (6), 519-522, 2009 | 74 | 2009 |
Things that go bump in the night: evolutionary interactions between cephalopods and cetaceans in the tertiary DR Lindberg, ND Pyenson Lethaia 40 (4), 335-343, 2007 | 73 | 2007 |
Marine tetrapod macroevolution: physical and biological drivers on 250 Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystems ND Pyenson, NP Kelley, JF Parham Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 400, 1-8, 2014 | 71 | 2014 |