Fossils of 'shark-toothed' meat eating dinosaur found in Thailand

Fossils of a huge rapacious dinosaur that was a top predator around 115 million years back have been uncovered in Thailand - a savage that was among the early individuals from an amazing gathering of substance tearing dinosaurs known for their shark-like teeth.

Researchers on Wednesday said the dinosaur, named Siamraptor suwati, was more than 26-foot-long (9 meters) in length and weighed at any rate 3.5 tons. Siamraptor, the biggest flesh eating dinosaur at any point found in Thailand, lived during the Cretaceous Period in a domain fixated on a winding stream framework and went after plant-eating dinosaurs, the specialists said.

Scientist Duangsuda Chokchaloemwong of Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University and Khorat Fossil Museum in Thailand said halfway skeletons of four Siamraptor people were found in Korat, Thailand. The fossils incorporate pieces of the skull, spine, appendages, hips and teeth.

"Siamraptor is the biggest predator in the earth and hence could be a zenith predator by then," said scientist Soki Hattori of Fukui Prefectural University and Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan.

Siamraptor, signifying "burglar from Thailand," reveals insight into the early transformative history of a dinosaur gathering known as carcharodontosaurs.

The gathering's best-realized part is Carcharodontosaurus - signifying "shark-toothed reptile" - a dinosaur that was among biggest carnivores ever on Earth, living around 90 million years prior in northern Africa and coming to around 45 feet (13.5 meters) long. The teeth of dinosaurs in this gathering bragged attributes taking after those a shark, empowering effective substance tearing.

"The teeth of carcharodontosaurs, including Carcharodontosaurus, show trademark undulations of the surface along the edge of the dainty, cutting edge like 'shark-tooth.' This element is additionally seen in Siamraptor's teeth," Hattori included.

The soonest carcharodontosaurs are known from even-more established fossils from Africa and Europe, leaving the analysts shocked to locate an early individual from the gathering in Southeast Asia.

The carcharodontosaurs are a piece of a bigger dinosaur gathering considered theropods that incorporates all the flesh eating dinosaurs including any semblance of Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived in North America toward the finish of the time of dinosaurs approximately 66 million years back, just as fowls.

The carcharodontosaurs varied from a portion of the more vigorously constructed theropods like Tyrannosaurus.

"They have a delicately built, slender skull with horns or peaks on their skull rooftop, and moderately vigorous forelimbs with three fingers," Hattori said.

The investigation, some portion of an exploration coordinated effort called the Japan-Thailand Dinosaur Project, was distributed in the diary PLOS One.