Largest Ever Dinosaur Discovered in Southeast Asia Was a Real Doozy

An ancient giant – as massive as nine elephants – has emerged from Thailand. The dinosaur, named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, lived more than 100 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous.

Largest Ever Dinosaur Discovered in Southeast Asia Was a Real Doozy. An ancient giant – as massive as nine elephants – has emerged from Thailand. The dinosaur, named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, lived more than 100 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous. It was a sauropod, sporting a lengthy tail, a long neck, and a prodigious appetite for plants, à la the on-again off-again Brontosaurus. It likely weighed up to 28 tons and stretched some 27 meters (89 feet) long. That's truly immense – more than 10 tons more massive than the hugely famous (and famously huge) Dippy the Diplodocus. And it makes Nagatitan the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia. Yet Nagatitan would have been only modestly mammoth compared with Patagotitan, a sauropod thought to have weighed approximately 70 tons and which may have been the largest land a...