 He also studies dinosaurs (he visited most of the famous fossil sites, such as Nemegt in Mongolia, Tendaguru in Tanzania, Red Deer in Alberta, and other localities in Utah, Colorado, Montana and Patagonia) and corresponds with the world-leading palaeontologists.Another field of his interest is shamanism.In 1976 he discovered and later scientifically described the world's strongest carnivorous beetle, "Manticora imperator", of the tiger beetle group.