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Scott Persons

Vertebrate paleontologist at the South Carolina State Museum, known for work on dinosaur locomotion and anatomy.

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Crocodile teeth from the same Montana rock anchor T. rex's 36 C body temperature

A UCLA team read rare-isotope bonds in Tyrannosaurus rex tooth enamel and got about 36 degrees Celsius, a figure that took some 15 years of work to make measurable from a museum-sized sample.

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