Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis had enough unique features to be considered a new species.

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The dinosaur is likely to have roamed what is now Thailand between 100 and 120 million years ago and is the largest ever found in Southeast Asia, researchers said. Its head and teeth were not among the fossils recovered, but researchers have a good idea of its feeding preferences based on other sauropods. “Nagatitan was probably a bulk browser that focused on consuming high volumes of vegetation that required little to no chewing such as conifers and possibly seed ferns,” said Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, a University College London PhD student in palaeontology and lead author of the research. Sauropods were some of the largest recorded land animals in Earth’s history.

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  • Source: Al Jazeera
  • Published: May 15, 2026 at 08:02 UTC
  • Category: World
  • Topics: #aljazeera · #world-news · #middle-east · #scientists · #thailand · #nagatitan

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