In 2016, someone walking past a drying pond in Thailand noticed a few strange rocks. Ten years later, those 'rocks' turned out to be a 27-metre, 27-tonne dinosaur, the largest ever found in Southeast Asia

In 2016, someone walking past a drying pond in Thailand noticed a few strange rocks. Ten years later, those 'rocks' turned out to be a 27-metre, 27-tonne dinosaur, the largest ever found in Southeast Asia

A village pond in north-eastern Thailand shrank in the 2016 dry season and handed over a 27-tonne secret. A local resident in Chaiyaphum province noticed a few odd-looking rocks along the newly exposed bank. Bones, as it turned out, and enormous ones. Almost a decade later they finally have a name: Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, described in a paper published in Scientific Reports in May 2026 and now the largest dinosaur ever identified in Southeast…