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Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life
Geerat J. Vermeij
PLoS ONE (2016) Vol. 11, Iss. 1, pp. e0146092-e0146092
Open Access | Times Cited: 107

Showing 1-25 of 107 citing articles:

Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics
Graham J. Slater, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Nicholas D. Pyenson
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (2017) Vol. 284, Iss. 1855, pp. 20170546-20170546
Open Access | Times Cited: 197
Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants
Jeremy A. Goldbogen, David E. Cade, Danuta M. Wisniewska, et al.
Science (2019) Vol. 366, Iss. 6471, pp. 1367-1372
Open Access | Times Cited: 143
Return to the Sea, Get Huge, Beat Cancer: An Analysis of Cetacean Genomes Including an Assembly for the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Marc Tollis, Jooke Robbins, Andrew E. Webb, et al.
Molecular Biology and Evolution (2019) Vol. 36, Iss. 8, pp. 1746-1763
Open Access | Times Cited: 109
Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans
P. Martin Sander, Eva Maria Griebeler, Nicole Klein, et al.
Science (2021) Vol. 374, Iss. 6575
Closed Access | Times Cited: 92
Dive Deep: Bioenergetic Adaptation of Deep-Sea Animals
Mitsuharu Yagi, Saori Anzai, Shogo Tanaka
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE (2025) Vol. 42, Iss. 1
Closed Access | Times Cited: 1
The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution
Pedro L. Godoy, Roger Benson, Mario Bronzati, et al.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2019) Vol. 19, Iss. 1
Open Access | Times Cited: 66
The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Nicholas D. Pyenson, Geerat J. Vermeij
Biology Letters (2016) Vol. 12, Iss. 7, pp. 20160186-20160186
Open Access | Times Cited: 63
The evolution of foraging capacity and gigantism in cetaceans
Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Peter T. Madsen
Journal of Experimental Biology (2018) Vol. 221, Iss. 11
Open Access | Times Cited: 62
Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays
Catalina Pimiento, Juan L. Cantalapiedra, Kenshu Shimada, et al.
Evolution (2019) Vol. 73, Iss. 3, pp. 588-599
Open Access | Times Cited: 62
The anatomy, paleobiology, and evolutionary relationships of the largest extinct side-necked turtle
Edwin‐Alberto Cadena, Torsten M. Scheyer, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, et al.
Science Advances (2020) Vol. 6, Iss. 7
Open Access | Times Cited: 48
The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England)
Neil S. Davies, Russell J. Garwood, William J. McMahon, et al.
Journal of the Geological Society (2021) Vol. 179, Iss. 3
Open Access | Times Cited: 35
The evolutionary biomechanics of locomotor function in giant land animals
John R. Hutchinson
Journal of Experimental Biology (2021) Vol. 224, Iss. 11
Open Access | Times Cited: 33
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors regulate growth hormone in pituitary somatotrophs of tigers
Lulu Liu, Shilong Yang, Longhui Chai, et al.
Communications Biology (2025) Vol. 8, Iss. 1
Open Access
Life in Extreme Environments

Cambridge University Press eBooks (2020)
Open Access | Times Cited: 36
The Giant Marine Gastropod Campanile Giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) as a High‐Resolution Archive of Seasonality in the Eocene Greenhouse World
Niels J. de Winter, Johan Vellekoop, Alexander J. Clark, et al.
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (2020) Vol. 21, Iss. 4
Open Access | Times Cited: 35
Lunge filter feeding biomechanics constrain rorqual foraging ecology across scale
Shirel R. Kahane‐Rapport, Matthew S. Savoca, David E. Cade, et al.
Journal of Experimental Biology (2020)
Open Access | Times Cited: 31
Evolution of gigantism in right and bowhead whales (Cetacea: Mysticeti: Balaenidae)
Michelangelo Bisconti, Luca Pellegrino, Giorgio Carnevale
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2021) Vol. 134, Iss. 2, pp. 498-524
Closed Access | Times Cited: 25
By more ways than one: Rapid convergence at hydrothermal vents shown by 3D anatomical reconstruction of Gigantopelta (Mollusca: Neomphalina)
Chong Chen, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Katrin Linse, et al.
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) Vol. 17, Iss. 1
Open Access | Times Cited: 32
The evolution of gigantism in active marine predators
Humberto G. Ferrón, Carlos Martínez‐Pérez, Héctor Botella
Historical Biology (2017) Vol. 30, Iss. 5, pp. 712-716
Open Access | Times Cited: 30
Land to sea transitions in vertebrates: the dynamics of colonization
Geerat J. Vermeij, Ryosuke Motani
Paleobiology (2018) Vol. 44, Iss. 2, pp. 237-250
Closed Access | Times Cited: 30
Fossil bivalves and the sclerochronological reawakening
David K. Moss, Linda C. Ivany, D. S. Jones
Paleobiology (2021) Vol. 47, Iss. 4, pp. 551-573
Open Access | Times Cited: 21
A Devonian Fish Tale: A New Method of Body Length Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)
Russell K. Engelman
Diversity (2023) Vol. 15, Iss. 3, pp. 318-318
Open Access | Times Cited: 8
Biology and ecology of the world’s largest invertebrate, the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni): a short review
Rui Rosa, Vanessa M. Lopes, Miguel Guerreiro, et al.
Polar Biology (2017) Vol. 40, Iss. 9, pp. 1871-1883
Closed Access | Times Cited: 25
Brobdingnagians and Goliaths: two forms of gigantism in fish
Daniel Pauly, Elaine Chu, Johannes Müller
Journal of Fish Biology (2024) Vol. 104, Iss. 6, pp. 1709-1717
Open Access | Times Cited: 2
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) hunt, kill and consume the largest fish on Earth, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Francesca Pancaldi, Kathryn A. Ayres, Austin J. Gallagher, et al.
Frontiers in Marine Science (2024) Vol. 11
Open Access | Times Cited: 2
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