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Overview

Nicholas D. Pyenson is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, encompassing a variety of subfields including Ecology, Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Oceanography. The scope of their work covers a range of topics centered on marine and paleontological studies.

The main research topics associated with Pyenson include:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Pyenson has published extensively in venues that include:

  • MorphoSource Media
  • PeerJ
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Paleobiology
  • Science

Several collaborations stand out in Pyenson's career, reflecting recurring partnerships with specific coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Christopher D. Marshall, Paul L. Koch, and Clare Fieseler. These coauthorships suggest a collaborative approach to multidisciplinary marine and paleontological research.

Among Pyenson's recent papers are the following notable works:

  • Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements, 2021, published in Nature
  • Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana, 2020, published in PeerJ
  • Diplomacy for the world's hottest sea, 2022, published in Science
  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Lateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales, 2022, published in Scientific Reports
  • Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator, 2022, published in Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

    Aaron O’Dea;Harilaos A. Lessios;Anthony G. Coates;Ron I. Eytan

  • Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density

    J. A. Goldbogen;J. Calambokidis;E. Oleson;J. Potvin

  • Big gulps require high drag for fin whale lunge feeding

    Jeremy A. Goldbogen;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Robert E. Shadwick

  • Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record

    Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Simon N. Sponberg

  • Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics.

    Graham J. Slater;Jeremy A. Goldbogen;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

    Neil P. Kelley;Neil P. Kelley;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements.

    Matthew S. Savoca;Max F. Czapanskiy;Shirel R. Kahane-Rapport;William T. Gough

  • Scaling of lunge‐feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass‐specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity

    Jeremy A. Goldbogen;John Calambokidis;Donald A. Croll;Megan F. McKenna

  • DIVERSITY ESTIMATES, BIASES, AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC EFFECTS: RESOLVING CETACEAN DIVERSITY IN THE TERTIARY

    Mark D. Uhen;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants.

    J. A. Goldbogen;D. E. Cade;D. M. Wisniewska;J. Potvin

  • The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology

    Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous

    James F. Parham;James F. Parham;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in rorqual whales

    Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Jeremy A. Goldbogen;A. Wayne Vogl;Gabor Szathmary

  • Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea

    Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Carolina S. Gutstein;Carolina S. Gutstein;James F. Parham;Jacobus P. Le Roux

  • Carcasses on the coastline: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean

    Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Morphology of the odontocete melon and its implications for acoustic function

    Megan F. McKenna;Ted W. Cranford;Annalisa Berta;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Iterative Evolution of Sympatric Seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) Assemblages during the Past ~26 Million Years

    Jorge Velez-Juarbe;Jorge Velez-Juarbe;Daryl P. Domning;Daryl P. Domning;Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson

  • Origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum

    Nicholas D. Pyenson;Randall B. Irmis;Jere H. Lipps;Lawrence G. Barnes

  • What happened to gray whales during the Pleistocene? The ecological impact of sea-level change on benthic feeding areas in the North Pacific Ocean.

    Nicholas D. Pyenson;Nicholas D. Pyenson;David R. Lindberg

  • Pinniped Turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New Evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile

    Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro;Carolina S. Gutstein;Rafael M. Varas-Malca;Mario E. Suarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy A. Goldbogen
Jeremy A. Goldbogen Stanford University
A. Wayne Vogl
A. Wayne Vogl University of British Columbia
James F. Parham
James F. Parham California State University, Fullerton
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson American Museum of Natural History
Elliott L. Hazen
Elliott L. Hazen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Graham J. Slater
Graham J. Slater University of Chicago
Randall B. Irmis
Randall B. Irmis University of Utah
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Robert F. Stallard
Robert F. Stallard Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Jere H. Lipps
Jere H. Lipps University of California, Berkeley

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