Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul

So myself and my co-author, we had applied for the National Geographic Society grant, which gave us enough funding to not just reopen the site and finish the preparations of the fossils and the cast, but also even start a public education in the local area to give back to the local community.

The first time I laid eyes on the specimen, I was told it was big.

And then I finally saw the humerus, the upper leg bone.

And it was taller than myself.

And I had to kind of stop and go, okay, what have I gotten myself into?

So that's a replica of the bone itself.

Of the humerus.

And it's definitely taller than you.

It is very much taller than me.

It is 178 centimeters.

I'm in the realm of 165.

Yeah.

So that already tells me that, okay, this is something very big.

Most of the bones take at least four people to lift and move around.

And how many bones of the dino have you got?

So we use the circumference of the humerus and the femur.

There is a kind of a statistical correlation between those measurements and an animal's body mass.

especially for quadrupeds.

Right.

And we used those measurements and the calculation to figure out that Naga Titan likely weighed roughly 27 tons and measured 27 meters.