ksuadminFebruary 6, 2021 111
A strange chain of coincidences seems to have predestined the geologist Luiz Carlos Borges Ribeiro (59) to become a dinosaur hunter.
He was not only born in Uberaba (MG), today one of the most important fossil deposits of these extinct monsters in the country, but he also has a family relationship with the animals, so to speak: It was precisely at his great-grandfather’s farm that some of the first dinosaurs from Brazil were found in the 1940s.
However, if there was a predestination in history, it came late and by winding roads. “I discovered all of this well. I thought I was going to be a petroleum and mining geologist, I never thought I’d deal with dinosaurs, ”he says.