Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale

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 and extinct candidates for the largest animal of all time, such as whales, terrestrial non-avian dinosaurs, and extinct marine reptiles. The discovery of

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Nicholas D. Pyenson is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.