Tag: Thailand
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Spinosaurus relative longer than a pickup truck stalked Thailand’s rivers 125 million years ago
LiveScience has a story about a spinosaur that lived in Thailand 125 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous Period. The animal was about 25 feet long (7-8 meters) and likely ate the fish that swam in the rivers. The new dinosaur has yet to be named and was discovered in the Sam Ran locality…
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Fossil of Deep-Snouted Alligator Species Found in Thailand
SciNews has a story about the discovery of a new species of extinct alligator. Alligator munensis lived at least as recently as about 230,000 years ago in what is now Thailand. This newly identified species is closely related to the Chinese alligator Alligator sinensis. A nearly complete skull of A. munensis was found at the…
