Nicholas Pyenson is a paleontologist and the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous popular science works including the book Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures.[1]
Nicholas Pyenson
Born
Nicholas D. Pyenson
1980
Nationality
American
Alma mater
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Emory University (BS)
Awards
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
World Economic Forum Young Scientist Award
Scientific career
Fields
Paleontology, Cetology
Institutions
National Museum of Natural History
^Pyenson, Nick (2019). Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-7352-2458-2.[non-primary source needed]
NicholasPyenson is a paleontologist and the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington...
Vélez-Juarbe and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2012 and the type species is Bohaskaia monodontoides. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2012). "Bohaskaia...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Makeba Wilbourn, Duke University NicholasPyenson, Smithsonian Institution On July 2, 2019, President Trump announced...
USNM 214830) by Smithsonian paleontologists Alexandra Boersma and NicholasPyenson in 2016, being recognized as a new species. Arktocara was a river dolphin...
1645148. hdl:11568/1022436. S2CID 202018525. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe & Nicholas D. Pyenson (2012). "Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti...
California (Temblor Formation). It was first named by James F. Parham and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2010, and the type species is Pacifichelys urbinai from Peru....
Rasmussen, Cornelia; Percival, Lawrence M.E.; Mather, Tamsin A.; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (December 2022). "Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator"...
Evolution 12(1/2):99-143 Matthew S. Leslie; Carlos Mauricio Peredo; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2019). "Norrisanima miocaena, a new generic name and redescription...
based on Lynch and Parham (2003) and Parham and Pyenson (2010): James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru...
probably had a predominantly marine lifestyle. Evolution of cetaceans Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge; Gutstein, Carolina S.; Little, Holly; Vigil...
doi:10.1111/zoj.12456. hdl:11568/814760. Alexandra T. Boersma & Nicholas D. Pyenson (2015). "Albicetus oxymycterus, a new generic name and redescription...
2018. "Largest mammal". Guinness World Records. Motani, Ryosuke; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (29 February 2024). "Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods...
"Volcanoes of Peru". www.volcanodiscovery.com. Retrieved 19 March 2020. Pyenson, Nicholas D. "New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South...
Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoires 169: 1–32. James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative...
plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Jorge Vélez Juarbe; Carolina S. Gutstein; Holly Little; Dioselina...
Rasmussen, Cornelia; Percival, Lawrence M.E.; Mather, Tamsin A.; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (December 2022). "Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator"...
related to Cranberry sauce. Ocean Spray (cooperative) Redcurrant sauce Pyenson, Andrea (2010-11-24). "A tale of two side dishes". The Boston Globe. Archived...
Natural History Special Publication. 14: 39–80. Alexandra T. Boersma; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2015). "Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription...
Eocene Parkers Ferry Formation, South Carolina Parham, James F.; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (March 2010). "New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the...
Carreno, Catalina; Rivera, Huber; Suarez, Mario E.; Ishman, Scott E.; Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Gutstei, Carolina S. (2016). "Oroclinal bending of the Juan Fern´andez...
PaleoBios. 23 (3): 21–35.[permanent dead link] James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative...
Czaplewski, Nicholas J. (2011). Mammalogy (5 ed.). Jones and Bartlett Publishers. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-7637-6299-5. Peredo, C. M.; Pyenson, N. D.; Marshall...
published in 2014, in a publication led by North American paleontologist Nicholas D. Pyenson and colleagues from Chie. The published research revealed that not...
PMC 6548731. PMID 31039728. Slater, Graham J.; Goldbogen, Jeremy A.; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (24 May 2017). "Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism...
99–143. doi:10.1007/s10914-005-6944-3. S2CID 90231. Motani, Ryosuke; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (2024-02-29). "Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that...
148 (1): 103–131. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00228.x. Lindberg, D. R.; Pyenson, N. D. (2006). "Evolutionary Patterns in Cetacea: Fishing Up Prey Size...
1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00119.x. ISSN 1038-4871. Debey, Lauren B.; Pyenson, Nicholas D. (2012-03-21). "Osteological correlates and phylogenetic analysis...
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