Giant new dinosaur identified from fossils in Thailand

The nagatitan is the largest dinosaur found in South-East Asia and weighs as much as nine elephants.

Researchers unearth Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur

They're calling it the "last titan" of Thailand. The sauropod — an herbivore with a long neck and tail — comes from the late Early Cretaceous period, some 100 to 120 million years ago.

By James Doubek

Scientists unearthed a gigantic dinosaur species in Thailand after a villager spotted the bones

Thailand is now known to have 14 named dinosaur species

By Will Dunham

Researchers discover a new gigantic dinosaur species in Thailand

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Scientists unearth fossil of Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur in Thailand

Nagatitan lived at a time when Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were rising, coinciding with high global temperatures.

Scientists dig up Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur in Thailand

Scientists dig up Southeast Asia’s largest dinosaur in Thailand

Nagatitan provides insight into sauropod diversity in the region. Not many sauropods are known from Southeast Asia, and Nagatitan is the largest and the geologically youngest of them.

By Jee Geronimo

Scientists dig up Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur in Thailand

Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now ​Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 27 ‌metres long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This was Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, the largest-known dinosaur from Southeast Asia.