Keith Adams
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first heard Jan 2026
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The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragosaurus kalasincensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago.
It had an unusually long neck and measured up to 20 meters in length.
Jack Lovegrove is a PhD researcher who studies dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum here in London.
He told Paul Henley more about this new species.
This new dinosaur, Uragosaurus, belongs to a group of dinosaurs known as the sauropods, which are the long-necked, iconic dinosaurs like Diplodocus, Brontosaurus.
It belongs to a group known as the Mementisaurids, which actually had the longest necks of any sauropod.
So it's one of the longest necks of the long-necked dinosaurs.
So what's cool about this dinosaur is that despite only finding one vertebrae from the back, scientists have been able to figure out not just what group of dinosaurs it belongs to, but that it is a new species and give it a new name.
And it's significant as it's the first momentousaurid to be named from Thailand, and it's only the second one to be named from outside China.
So it shows that this group that we previously thought might have been restricted to China, East Asia, is actually more widely distributed.
My understanding from reading about this is that actually initially the fossil site was discovered by a local farmer.
So this is something that happens a lot in paleontology because there's not a huge amount of paleontologists and we can't be everywhere.
But often it's members of the public find stuff, report it, and then paleontologists are able to come along and make these important discoveries.
And what's cool about the locality that this dinosaur comes from is that as well as this one bone from this new dinosaur, there was a whole array of other things.
So pterosaurs, crocodiles, fish, all mixed together in this one locality.
The dating is still a little bit up in the air based on comparisons with other faunas.
As I mentioned, this is a group that we know from China from the end of the Jurassic, these momentousaurids.
We think that this was probably latest Jurassic, but I don't think they yet have radiometric dating on this formation.
But we're pretty sure it's late Triassic, maybe earliest Cretaceous.
Jack Lovegrove talking there.
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