Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul

Ooh, my favourite dinosaur.

It's got to be a strange dinosaur such as Therizinosaurus.

It's got these massive claws that people thought were used for, you know, hunting, but actually...

we figured out that it probably used it to pull down branches and things like that.

So the new dinosaur's full name is Naga Titan Chayapumensis.

It was found in northeastern Thailand in Chayapum province.

by local villagers back in 2016.

The story goes that it was a kind of local charity event at the temple, and they had gone out fishing.

The local villager, Mr. Tanom Longnan, actually saw some bones peeking out from the edge of the pond.

Right.

And of course, he immediately kind of realized that there's something odd about this.

He thinks they might be dinosaur bones, but he's not entirely sure.

The villagers don't really believe him initially.

Oh, really?

So he spotted the pelvis first.

So it's one of the largest blocks that we have of the bones.

So it would have been very large, very kind of distinctly shaped.

Pretty much, yeah.

And excavation basically begins almost immediately.

But in 2020, they ran out of funding.