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A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology.
Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2026Article
- Humerus shape evolved in cetaceans under relaxed selection and random drift.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Surviving a Dark Age: The Oldest Baleen-Bearing Whales (Cetacea: Chaeomysticeti) of Pacific South America (Lower Miocene, Peru).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The genome of African manateeiScience · 2024Article
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- The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2024Review
- Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whalePeerJ · 2024Article
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- Giant baleen whales emerged from a cold southern cradle.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Learning from the heaviest ancient whale.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2023Review
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Abstract
The fossil record of cetaceans documents how terrestrial animals acquired extreme adaptations and transitioned to a fully aquatic lifestyle
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