Scott Persons News Today

When you say raptor, everyone thinks of the CGI critters from Jurassic Park. But raptor is like cat, said professor of paleontology Dr. Scott Persons.

George R.R. Martin found out about a fearsome apex dinosaur named after the dragon Meraxes from his book Fire & Blood.

The dinosaur trackway was unearthed in Longxiang and is around the size of a hockey rink. Some of the footprints are unusually formed, with intact imprints of only two toes....

A team has identified five raptor footprints from 90 million years ago

Enormous footprints in the Fujian Province of China point to the existence of a previously undiscovered raptor species.

An article published Wednesday detailed the discovery of a seriously terrible lizard (dinosaur) that may be one of the largest to ever walk the Earth.

An international research team, including a South Carolina professor, identified fossil tracks that don’t match the feet of any previously discovered dinosaur.

Persons told police a rare dolphin jaw and teeth fossil, a 3D printed whale skull, an extremely rare fish jaw, and a seal skeleton were all missing from the museum, and he believed Robert Boessenecker, a former researcher and professor at the College of Charleston, to be responsible.

Robert Boessenecker, a former College of Charlestondjunct lecturer in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Former College of Charleston paleontologist Robert Boessenecker & his wife face criminal charges in connection in theft of rare fossils from Mace Brown Museum.