• Mining for clues: Yoshikazu Noda, a researcher at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, holds a fossil excavated at a site in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, on Feb. 4 through a joint project with the Khorat Fossil Museum. | KYODO
    Mining for clues: Yoshikazu Noda, a researcher at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, holds a fossil excavated at a site in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, on Feb. 4 through a joint project with the Khorat Fossil Museum. | KYODO
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SURANAREE, THAILAND – “It’s a dinosaur backbone!” One February morning, around 30 researchers and workers hammered away at an excavation site in the middle of sugar cane fields stretching beyond the horizon in Suranaree, about 260 km northeast of Bangkok.

Large rocks were first cut into pieces around 30 cm sq. and then broken into smaller pieces to comb through for fossils of dinosaur bones and teeth, as well as fish scales.

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