The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has granted the Terra dos Gigantes (Land of the Giants) geopark in Uberaba, in the Triângulo Mineiro region of Minas Gerais State, the status of “geopark,” Agencia Brasil reported. With this appointment, the South American country now has six archaeological sites of global significance.
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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.