New Titanosaur Species Identified in Brazil sci.news - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sci.news Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers revealed Thursday that the remains of a toothless dinosaur species with two legs that existed some 70 million years ago have been found. The 80-centimeter-tall and three-feet-long theropod dinosaur belong to a group known as theropods, which were believed to be carnivores.
Scientists Discover New Brazilian Carnivorous Dinosaurs; see pictures – 05/08/2021 – Science – KSU ksusentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksusentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.