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Last month I made a trip to Paris, and ofcourse a visit to the Museum of Natural History had to be included! A gorgeous museum especially due to it's antique style, it's also one of the oldest natural history musea in the world. Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica) Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) Short Beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus sp.) Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)

A short presentation film of the Paleontological Research Center of the MNHN in Paris

Vaderlimulus - 245-Million-year-old Horseshoe Crab Fossil named after Star War’s Darth Vader. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science First Triassic Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found in North America, SciNews The paper is: Lerner, A.J., Lucas, S.G. and Lockley, M., 2017. First fossil horseshoe crab (Xiphosurida) from the Triassic of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen, pp.289-302. An open access paper is: Bicknell, R.D. and Pates, S., 2020. Pictorial atlas of fossil and extant horseshoe crabs, with focus on Xiphosurida. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, p.98. Yours, Paul H.

Kicked up this fossil around the Eiffel Tower looks similar to coal fossils I’ve found but I’m not sure what exactly it is

Hello everyone, I had the fortune to stumble across this forum as well as fosiel.net/paleontica, and am thankful for the plentiful information. I am a near absolute beginner as regards identification/nomenclature of fossils, geologic strata, etc, but am slowly making my way when time allows. I currently live just south of Paris and am interested in exploring the region. I travel also occassionally through Sweden, Denmark and Germany and am on the lookout for possible spots to stop and have a look around. I had my first expedition in France at Les falaises des vaches noires, one of the best spots imaginable for an introduction to fossil hunting. It did not disappoint. I have at least one more trip planned, this time to the cretaceous region east of here, and may of course imbibe some of the local quaff along the way, in particular at the caves of Legrande-Latour. Any pointers and questions welcome.

The National museum of Natural History in Paris, France is absolutely fantastic and anyone with even a passing interest in palaeontology or the natural world should have visited this museum at least once in their lives. It's truly a sight to behold. The museum consists of three buildings and a botanical garden. The first building is the Great Gallery of Evolution. This contains a vast array of stuffed animals. they also have a few specimens of extinct animals like the Quagga and the Tasmanian Wolf. Deep sea creatures Tasmanian Wolf or Thylacinus cynocephalus Equus quagga quagga There is a lot more to see in this gallery but I don't have many more interesting pictures. The second building is the Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology. But I haven't actually entered this building, so I don't have any pictures of it. What makes this museum complex really special though, is the Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy. Photos do not do it justice by a long shot, you need to see it for yourself. To begin with, the hall has wonderful architecture and is really well lit. This is where they keep all the skeletons and fossils. The ground floor contains skeletons of modern animals. The thing is, that there are hundreds of skeletons there to see. This is the best place for studying comparative anatomy. A really cool half Elephant's skull so you can see inside. And now on to fossils...