The Snake Necked Dinosaur That Rewrites Southeast Asian History The discovery of Uragasaurus kalasinensis, a new long necked sauropod dinosaur species from Kalasin province in Thailand, has sent shockwaves through the paleontological community.
This find expands our understanding of mamenchisaurid sauropods and sheds light on the prehistoric ecosystem of north eastern Thailand.
The fossil, housed at the Palaeontological Research and Education Centre in Mahasarakham University, is an isolated anterior dorsal vertebra that dates back around 150 million years to the Late Jurassic period.