Taphonomy of a Mysticete Whale from the Lower Pliocene of the Coast of Cádiz (Spain) by Giulia Bosio, Ildefonso Bajo-Campos, Alberto Collareta, Sergio Ros-Montoya, Daniel de la Torre, Giovanni Coletti, Giovanni Bianucci

“…These deposits range from Pliocene to Pleistocene in age and include shallow-marine, mixed carbonate–siliciclastic sediments, with the whale being found in occurrence of a stratigraphic unconformity marked by <i>Thalassinoides</i> burrows. …”
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New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) by Giovanni Bianucci, Claudio Di Celma, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert

“…Here we report new fossil beaked whales from the late Miocene of the Pisco Formation (southern Peru). …”
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A new diminutive fossil ziphiid from the deep-sea floor off northern Chile and some remarks on the body size evolution and palaeobiogeography of the beaked whales by Giovanni Bianucci, Walter Sielfeld, Nicole A. Olguin, Guillermo Guzmán

“…The evolutionary history of the beaked whales (Ziphiidae), odontocetes nowadays adapted to deep diving, is well known thanks to a significant fossil record mainly from the deep ocean floors. …”
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Structured-Light 3D Scanning as a Tool for Creating a Digital Collection of Modern and Fossil Cetacean Skeletons (Natural History Museum, University of Pisa) by Marco Merella, Simone Farina, Patrizia Scaglia, Gaia Caneve, Giada Bernardini, Alice Pieri, Alberto Collareta, Giovanni Bianucci

“…The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts one of the most important osteological collections of cetaceans all over Europe, as well as a conspicuous paleontological collection, including several holotypes of Archaeoceti (archaic whales), Mysticeti (baleen whales), and Odontoceti (toothed whales). …”
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Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru) by Giovanni Bianucci, Christian de Muizon, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert

“…Several aspects of the fascinating evolutionary history of toothed and baleen whales (Cetacea) are still to be clarified due to the fragmentation and discontinuity (in space and time) of the fossil record. …”
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Vertebrate Palaeoecology of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Glimpses into the Ancient Humboldt Current Ecosystem by Alberto Collareta, Olivier Lambert, Felix G. Marx, Christian de Muizon, Rafael Varas-Malca, Walter Landini, Giulia Bosio, Elisa Malinverno, Karen Gariboldi, Anna Gioncada, Mario Urbina, Giovanni Bianucci

“…We summarise observations on hundreds of fossil whales, dolphins, seals, seabirds, turtles, crocodiles, sharks, rays, and bony fishes to reconstruct ecological relationships in the wake of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, and the marked cooling that followed it. …”
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Skull ecomorphological variation of narwhals (Monodon monoceros, Linnaeus 1758) and belugas (Delphinapterus leucas, Pallas 1776) reveals phenotype of their hybrids. by Deborah Vicari, Eline D Lorenzen, Mikkel Skovrind, Paul Szpak, Marie Louis, Morten T Olsen, Richard P Brown, Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Richard C Sabin, Carlo Meloro

“…Narwhals and belugas are toothed whales belonging to the Monodontidae. Belugas have a circumpolar Arctic and sub-Artic distribution while narwhals are restricted to the Atlantic Arctic. …”
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