Nicholas Pyenson
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Research geologist, paleobiologist and curator
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Nicholas Pyenson's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Nicholas Pyenson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Pyenson is a paleontologist and the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous popular science works including the book Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures.
Nicholas Pyenson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Formation of the Isthmus of Panama (2016) (547)
- Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density (2011) (207)
- Big gulps require high drag for fin whale lunge feeding (2007) (135)
- Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics (2017) (132)
- Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record (2011) (132)
- Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene (2015) (114)
- DIVERSITY ESTIMATES, BIASES, AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC EFFECTS: RESOLVING CETACEAN DIVERSITY IN THE TERTIARY (2007) (112)
- Scaling of lunge‐feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass‐specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity (2012) (110)
- The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology (2011) (99)
- New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous (2010) (90)
- Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants (2019) (79)
- Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales (2012) (77)
- Carcasses on the coastline: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean (2010) (71)
- Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea (2014) (65)
- Iterative Evolution of Sympatric Seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) Assemblages during the Past ∼26 Million Years (2012) (63)
- Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function (2012) (60)
- Pinniped Turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New Evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile (2013) (60)
- Marine tetrapod macroevolution: Physical and biological drivers on 250 Ma of invasions and evolution in ocean ecosystems (2014) (56)
- Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (2009) (54)
- What Happened to Gray Whales during the Pleistocene? The Ecological Impact of Sea-Level Change on Benthic Feeding Areas in the North Pacific Ocean (2011) (53)
- Things that go bump in the night: evolutionary interactions between cephalopods and cetaceans in the tertiary (2007) (53)
- Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: A case study from the Miocene of Nevada (2007) (49)
- Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements (2021) (48)
- The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (2016) (47)
- Reconstructing cetacean brain evolution using computed tomography. (2003) (45)
- New Middle Eocene Whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru (2011) (43)
- Mandible allometry in extant and fossil Balaenopteridae (Cetacea: Mammalia): the largest vertebrate skeletal element and its role in rorqual lunge feeding (2013) (39)
- The Ecological Rise of Whales Chronicled by the Fossil Record (2017) (37)
- Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables high extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales (2013) (37)
- Decoupling Tooth Loss from the Evolution of Baleen in Whales (2017) (36)
- Osteological correlates and phylogenetic analysis of deep diving in living and extinct pinnipeds: What good are big eyes? (2013) (35)
- Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales (2018) (35)
- Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of ‘river dolphins’ in the Americas (2015) (31)
- High frequency echolocation, ear morphology, and the marine-freshwater transition: A comparative study of extant and extinct toothed whales (2014) (30)
- The repeated evolution of dental apicobasal ridges in aquatic-feeding mammals and reptiles (2019) (27)
- Miocene whale-fall from California demonstrates that cetacean size did not determine the evolution of modern whale-fall communities (2007) (27)
- TORTONIAN PONTOPORIID ODONTOCETES FROM THE EASTERN NORTH SEA (2007) (27)
- Stretchy nerves are an essential component of the extreme feeding mechanism of rorqual whales (2015) (25)
- A new dwarf seal from the late Neogene of South America and the evolution of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere (2016) (23)
- The Antiquity of Riverine Adaptations in Iniidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) Documented by a Humerus from the Late Miocene of the Ituzaingó Formation, Argentina (2014) (21)
- 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) (21)
- Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea (2016) (20)
- Evolutionary Patterns in Cetacea Fishing Up Prey Size through Deep Time (2007) (20)
- Hyper-longirostry and kinematic disparity in extinct toothed whales (2018) (17)
- What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation (2019) (17)
- Comment on “Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales” (2010) (16)
- Late Pleistocene gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) offshore Georgia, U.S.A., and the antiquity of gray whale migration in the North Atlantic Ocean (2013) (16)
- A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea) (2017) (15)
- Requiem for Lipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction (2009) (15)
- Bohaskaia monodontoides, a New Monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the Western North Atlantic Ocean (2012) (15)
- Elephant Seal (Mirounga sp.) from The Pleistocene of the Antofagasta Region, Northern Chile (2015) (13)
- Oroclinal bending of the Juan Fernández Ridge suggested by geohistory analysis of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, north-central Chile (2016) (13)
- Early Development and Orientation of the Acoustic Funnel Provides Insight into the Evolution of Sound Reception Pathways in Cetaceans (2015) (13)
- Salishicetus meadi, a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution (2018) (13)
- Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans (2017) (12)
- Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales (2018) (12)
- Feeding in Aquatic Mammals: An Evolutionary and Functional Approach (2019) (11)
- Fossil Mysticeti from the Pleistocene of Santa Maria Island, Azores (Northeast Atlantic Ocean), and the prevalence of fossil cetaceans on oceanic islands (2015) (10)
- Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana (2020) (9)
- Structure and Function in the Lunge Feeding Apparatus: Mechanical Properties of the Fin Whale Mandible (2017) (9)
- Using morphology to infer physiology: Case studies on rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) (2015) (9)
- Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription of a stem balaenopteroid mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California (2019) (8)
- Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density (2011) (7)
- Brain size evolution in whales and dolphins: new data from fossil mysticetes (2021) (7)
- Extensively remodeled, fractured cetacean tympanic bullae show that whales can survive traumatic injury to the ears (2016) (7)
- “Snagging” Teeth and Premolar Homologies in Paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia: Desmostylia) (2008) (6)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNION CHAPEL MINE SITE: A LOWER PENNSYLVANIAN (WESTPHALIAN A) ICHNOLOGICAL KONZENTRAT- LAGERSTÄTTE, ALABAMA, USA (2005) (6)
- The dilemma of trade samples and the importance of museum vouchers—caveats from a study on the extinction of Steller's sea cow: a comment on Crerar et al. (2014) (2016) (4)
- Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales (2022) (4)
- What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla (2021) (3)
- Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator (2022) (3)
- Diplomacy for the world's hottest sea. (2022) (2)
- How to Produce Translational Research to Guide Arctic Policy (2017) (2)
- Treating Medieval Manuscripts as Fossils (2005) (2)
- Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. Third Edition. By Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich, and Kit M. Kovacs. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Boston (Massachusetts): Elsevier. $89.95. xi + 726 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-12-397002-2. [Eighteen color plates are included.] 2015. (2016) (2)
- Borealodon osedax, a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and its implications for fossil whale-fall communities (2019) (2)
- Morphological variation of the relictual alveolar structures in the mandibles of baleen whales (2021) (1)
- Oh, the shark has such teeth: Did megatooth sharks play a larger role in prehistoric food webs? (2022) (1)
- Understanding the paleoecology and evolution of cetaceans in the eastern North Pacific Ocean during the Neogene (2008) (1)
- Exposing the secret life of whales at the World Economic Forum (2020) (1)
- When sharks nearly disappeared (2021) (1)
- Where to find fantastic beasts at sea (2019) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics" (2017) (0)
- Museums and Collections (2018) (0)
- New data from the first discovered paleoparadoxiid (Desmostylia) specimen shed light into the morphological variation of the genus Neoparadoxia (2022) (0)
- Treating medieval manuscripts as fossils [4] (multiple letters) (2005) (0)
- Supplementary material from "A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea)" (2017) (0)
- Accession 14-073 Website Records, 2011-2013 (2011) (0)
- Feeding morphology and body size shape resource partitioning in an eared seal community (2023) (0)
- Accession 14-251 Website Records, 2014 (2014) (0)
- Dataset for Pyenson et al. 2015 PeerJ (2015) (0)
- Supplementary material from "What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation" (2019) (0)
- Supplementary phylogenetic methods and simulation results for Independent evolution of whale gigantism linked with Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics (2017) (0)
- FOSSIL BALEEN WHALES (MYSTICETI) SHOW THAT CEREBRUM SIZE ACHIEVED MODERN SIZE BEFORE BALEEN EVOLVED (2022) (0)
- New Seal (Carnivora, Phocidae) Record from the Late Miocene–Pliocene of Guafo Island, Southern Chile (2022) (0)
- Supplementary material from " Borealodon osedax , a new stem mysticete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Washington State and implications for fossil whale-fall communities" (2019) (0)
- Unexpected decadal density-dependent shifts in California sea lion size, morphology, and foraging niche (2023) (0)
- Early and fast rise of Mesozoic ocean giants. (2021) (0)
- Fossil Sirenia from the Pleistocene of Qatar: new questions about the antiquity of sea cows in the Gulf Region (2022) (0)
- Supplementary material from " Salishicetus meadi , a new aetiocetid from the late Oligocene of Washington State and implications for feeding transitions in early mysticete evolution" (2018) (0)
- Dataset for Boersma and Pyenson 2015 PLOSONE (2015) (0)
- New Holocene grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) material from North Carolina: the most complete North Atlantic grey whale skeleton to date (2022) (0)
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