Dinosaurs that once walked Malaysia

Precious find: Paleontologists from Universiti Malaya working on uncovering the fossilised tooth of the stegodon in October 2020. — Universiti Malaya/ SHAARI CHEMAT/The Star

THEY walked the earth millions of years ago and today, we are unravelling the prehistoric mystery that is dinosaurs.

In Malaysia, it has been eight years since the news broke that dinosaur fossils had been found here for the first time – a tooth measuring 23mm long and 10mm wide was unearthed in Pahang in 2014. It belonged to a carnivorous “fish-eating” dinosaur in the Spinosauridae family, and helped to shed light on the kind of ancient creatures that lived here before us.