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T. rex relative found in Thailand: why local researchers are excited

Scientists hope the discovery will inspire more palaeontologists from southeast Asia to explore the region’s fossil history.
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An artist's palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Phu Kradung Formation of northeastern Thailand.

A newly identified fossil belongs to the tyrannosauroid family, which roamed Earth between 174 million and 66 million years ago. Credit: Chatcharin Somboon

Palaeontologists in Thailand have identified one of the first tyrannosauroid fossils in southeast Asia1. The discovery has excited researchers because so few specimens from the Late Jurassic epoch, around 150 million years ago, have been found in the region, in part owing to a lack of resources.

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Nature 632, 482-483 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02376-8

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  • Correction 13 August 2024: An earlier version of this article misspelt the name of Mahasarakham University.

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