Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale Perucetus colossus
Extremes in organismal size have broad interest in ecology and evolution because organismal size dictates many traits of an organism’s biology. There is particular fascination with identifying upper size extremes in the largest vertebrates, given the challenges and difficulties of measuring extant a...
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PeerJ Inc.
2024-02-01
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