Hidden Beneath Thailand for 113 Million Years: Researchers Discover a 90-Foot-Long Giant Dinosaur in Southeast Asia

Hidden beneath Thailand for 113 million years: Researchers discover a 90-foot-long giant dinosaur in Southeast Asia

Science News: Scientists have found the remains of a huge 90-foot dinosaur in Thailand, thus confirming the discovery of the biggest dinosaur ever found in Southeas.

A few rocks spotted near a pond in northeastern Thailand in 2016 have just been confirmed as a 27-tonne, 27-metre sauropod — the largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia

In 2016, during the dry season when water levels in a communal pond in northeastern Thailand had receded enough to expose its edges, a local resident in Chaiyaphum province noticed a pile of large bones along the bank. The bones were unusually large. The bones were also, in the structural way of such finds, almost certainly old. The resident reported the discovery. Paleontologists were notified. Excavations began. The excavations took, by every …

Archeologists discover the largest dinosaur ever to roam Southeast Asia

A front leg bone nearly as tall as a human emerged from the mud beside a pond in northeastern Thailand. It belonged to a giant dinosaur stretching about 27 meters long and weighing an estimated 27 tonnes. Scientists have now named the massive animal Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, a newly identified long-necked herbivore from the Early Cretaceous. Discovered in Thailand’s Chaiyaphum Province, it is the largest dinosaur ever identified in Southeast As…