Scientists identify Southeast Asia’s largest dinosaurSoutheast Asia’s largest dinosaur in Thailand
Scientists in Thailand have identified a huge new dinosaur from fossils dug up in Chaiyaphum province, with reports describing it as Southeast Asia’s largest known dinosaur.
The find matters because it adds to the record of sauropods, the long-necked plant-eaters that once spread across much of the world and later died out with the asteroid-linked end of the dinosaur age.
- Dippy the Diplodocus is a famous cast, not an original skeleton.
- Thailand has yielded several notable dinosaur discoveries over the past few decades.
- Some of the world’s best-known sauropod fossils come from South America and Africa.
