Peer-reviewed publications from the Pyenson Lab, and links to media coverage.
(PDFs on Smithsonian's Dspace are freely available; other PDFs are linked to journal sites, which may require pay or institutional access. For publications prior to Smithsonian appointment, email NDP; ‡ indicates student author; * indicates book review)
Shadwick, R. E., Goldbogen, J. A., Potvin, J., Pyenson, N. D., Vogl, A. W. 2013. Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables hyper-extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales. Journal of Experimental Biology [Online at JEB]
*Pyenson, N. D. 2013. Review of "Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia: Dugongs and Manatees by Helene Marsh, Thomas J. O'Shea, and John E. Reynolds III." The Quarterly Review of Biology 88 (1): 42-43. [PDF at JSTOR]
Pyenson, N. D., J. A. Goldbogen, and R. E. Shadwick. 2013. Mandible allometry in extant and fossil Balaenopteridae (Cetacea: Mammalia): the largest vertebrate skeletal element and its role in rorqual lunge-feeding. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108 (3): 586-599. [PDF at Wiley]
‡Valenzuela-Toro, A. M., ‡C. S. Gutstein, ‡R. M. Varas-Malca, M. E. Suárez, and N. D. Pyenson. 2013. Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1): 216-223. [PDF at Taylor & Francis]
‡Debey, L. B., and N. D. Pyenson. 2013. Osteological correlates and phylogenetic analysis of deep diving in living and extinct pinnipeds: what good are big eyes? Marine Mammal Science 29(1):48-83. [PDF at Wiley]
2012
Pyenson, N. D., J. A. Goldbogen, A. W. Vogl, G. Szathmary, R. L. Drake and R. E. Shadwick. 2012. Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge-feeding in rorqual whales. Nature 485: 498-501. doi: 10.1038/nature11135 [Cover article] [PDF at SI Dspace] [PDF at Nature] [PDF of Editorial in Nature] [NYT Science Times Observatory] [NYT Green Blog] [Radio interview on CBC's Quirks and Quarks] [CBC.ca] [BBC News] [Science Magazine ScienceNOW] [ScienceDaily] [Daily Mail UK] [MSNBC] [Yahoo! News] [AgenceFrancePresse] [UPI] [Alaska Dispatch] [Discover Magazine/Not Exactly Rocket Science] [International Business Times] [LA Times] [Discovery News] [UBC Press Release] [UBC Science] [Cosmos Magazine] [NPR in Seattle KPLU] [Vancouver Sun] [Huffington Post] [SmithsonianScience] [WhyEvolutionIsTrue] [SEA, Inc.] [New Bedford Whaling Museum] [Unorthodox Whale] [>60 Google News stories] [Nature Podcast]
‡Velez-Juarbe, J., and N. D. Pyenson. 2012. Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(2):476–484. [PDF at SI Dspace] [PDF at Taylor & Francis] [Around the Mall] [SI OceanPortal] [SmithsonianScience] [UPI] [EarthTimes] [Science Codex] [RedOrbit] [LiveScience] [Montreal Gazette] [Calgary Herald] [Victoria Times Colonist] [Discovery News] [MSNBC] [CBC North] [Cosmos Magazine]
‡Velez-Juarbe, J., D. P. Domning, and N. D. Pyenson. 2012. Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31294. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031294 [PDF at SI Dspace] [PDF at PLOS] [SI Newsdesk] [ScienceDaily] [SI OceanPortal]
Goldbogen, J. A., J. Calambokidis, D. Croll, M. F. McKenna, E. Oleson, J. Potvin, N. D. Pyenson, G. Schorr, R. E. Shadwick, and B. Tershy. 2012. Scaling of lunge feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity. Functional Ecology 26(1): 216-226. [PDF at SI Dspace] [Outside JEB] [Lay Summary]
McKenna, M. F., T. W. Cranford, A. Berta, and N. D. Pyenson. 2012. Morphological diversity of the odontocete melon: implications for acoustic function. Marine Mammal Science. 28(4): 690-713. [PDF at Wiley Online]
2011
Pyenson, N. D. 2011. The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: 3608–3616 [Cover article] [PDF on SI Dspace] [SmithsonianScience] [ScienceDaily] [UPI]
Pyenson, N. D. and S. N. Sponberg. 2011. Reconstructing body size in extinct crown Cetacea (Neoceti) using allometry, phylogenetic methods and tests from the fossil record. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18(4): 269–288. [PDF at SI Dspace]
Uhen, M. D., N. D. Pyenson, T. DeVries, M. Urbina-Schmitt, and P. R. Renne. 2011. New Middle Eocene whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru. Journal of Paleontology 85(5): 955–969. [PDF on SI Dspace] [SI Ocean Portal]
Pyenson, N. D., and D. R. Lindberg. 2011. What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean. PLoS ONE 6(7): e21295. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021295. [PDF on SI Dspace] [PDF at PLOS] [NY Times] [SF Chronicle] [UC Berkeley] [Vancouver Sun] [Times Colonist] [Radio Canada International] [Berkeley Daily Planet] [Alaska Dispatch] [US News & World Reports] [Discovery News] [LiveScience] [Science Daily] [ClimateWire/Scientific American] [Daily Californian] [Wissenschaft-aktuell (Germany)] [Kopalniawiedzy (Poland)] [Hirado.hu (Hungary)] [PressTV (Iran)] [EarthTimes] [Science...sort of (Podcast)] [Voice of America (Radio)]
Goldbogen, J. A., J. Calambokidis, J. A. Hildebrand, E. Oleson, J. Potvin, N. D. Pyenson, G. Schorr, and R. E. Shadwick. 2011. Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density. Journal of Experimental Biology 214:131-146. [PDF on SI Dspace] [Inside JEB]
2010
Pyenson, N. D., R. B. Irmis, and J. H. Lipps. 2010. Comment on "Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales." Science 330: 178-a. [PDF on SI Dspace]
Pyenson, N. D. 2010. Carcasses on the coast: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in eastern North Pacific Ocean. Paleobiology 36(3): 453–480. [PDF on SI Dspace]
Parham, J. F., and N. D. Pyenson. 2010. New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the iterative evolution of feeding ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous. Journal of Paleontology 84(2): 231-247. [PDF on SI Dspace]
2009
Pyenson, N. D., R. B. Irmis, L. G. Barnes, E. D. Mitchell, Jr., S. A. McLeod, and J. H. Lipps. 2009. The origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Geology 37(6): 519-522. [Cover article] [PDF through GSA] [SF Chronicle] [UC Berkeley Press Release] [UBC press release] [Vancouver Sun] [LiveScience] [Vancouver 24 hours] [Oakland Tribune] [Daily Californian] [Scienceticker.info (Germany)] [San Jose Mercury News] [CBC On The Coast (June 10)] [Contra Costa Times] [GSA Connection June 2009] [NSF homepage]
Pyenson, N. D. 2009. Requiem for Lipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction. Marine Mammal Science 25(3): 714–724.
