Scientists identify colossal new dinosaur species weighing as much as 9 elephants

From the limestone depths of northeastern Thailand, paleontologists have given a name and a place in history to a creature that last walked the earth over 100 million years ago — a sauropod as heavy as nine elephants, now recognized as a species entirely new to science. Discovered within the Khok Kruat Formation, this titanosauriform fills a long-standing gap in Southeast Asia's fossil record, reminding us that the map of ancient life is still being drawn. Its existence suggests that the great proliferation of giant dinosaurs during the Lower Cretaceous was not confined to the continents we kn