The white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, is the main top predator of the present-day
Mediterranean Sea. The deep past of C. carcharias in the Mediterranean is witnessed by a …

The evolution of cetaceans is one of the best examples of macroevolution documented from
the fossil record. While ecological transitions dominate each phase of cetacean history, this …

A new, fully dated total-evidence phylogeny of baleen whales (Mysticeti) shows that
evolutionary phases correlate strongly with Caenozoic modernization of the oceans and …

In this complete and thorough update of Arthur Boucot's seminal work, Evolutionary
Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution, Boucot is joined by George Poinar, who …

Whale-associated barnacles are intriguing in terms of their planktonic food sources, mating
habits, and mechanisms of host attachment. We present observations of the whale …

Acorn barnacles are sessile crustaceans common in shallow-water settings, both in modern
oceans and in the Miocene geological record. Barnacle-rich facies occur from polar to …

Abstract John Stewart Buckeridge, Benny KK Chan, and Shih-Wei Lee (2018) This paper
describes a remarkably prolific accumulation of the whale barnacle Coronula bifida Bronn …

Each individual cetacean is an ecosystem itself, potentially harboring a great variety of
animals that travel with it. Despite being often despised or overlooked, many of these …

The barnacles included in the superfamily Coronuloidea are epizoic symbionts of various
marine vertebrates (including cetaceans, sirenians, and sea turtles) and other crustaceans …

This paper reports a rediscovery of the first museum specimens of fossil whale barnacles
from Taiwan. They are part of the material studied and figured by Ichiro Hayasaka in 1934 …