The Nagatitan, the largest dinosaur in Southeast Asia, discovered in Thailand

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Thailand has discovered Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, the largest dinosaur ever identified in Southeast Asia.

This creature weighed 27 tons, equivalent to nine adult Asian elephants, and measured 27 meters in length. The fossils were found near a pond in northeastern Thailand, a decade ago, and the study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The Nagatitan lived between 100 and 120 million years ago, approximately 40 million years before the appearance of Tyrannosaurus rex. Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, the lead author of the study, emphasized that this discovery provides new insights into how ancient climate changes influenced the development of giant dinosaurs.

Nagatitan is referred to as "the last titan" of Thailand, considering that the fossils were found in the youngest rock formation in the country that contains dinosaurs.