Paris National Museum Of Natural History

At the entrance we saw a big sculpture of an Orangutan Strangling a Borneo Hunter, it was kind of odd to me to see an ape attacking a person. Then when we entered it looked great, the inside of the museum looked awesome. The huge hall had bones of lots of animals, and it is the biggest collection of bones that I’ve ever seen.

We started on the left aisle, first we saw monkeys & apes. There were mandrills, chimpanzees, lemurs & more monkeys. Later we saw weasels, like ferrets, otters, minks, etc. and then we saw a sea otter & an amazonian river otter.

After that we saw lots of bears. Mainly there were mostly skulls of bears not complete skeletons. We saw a black bear, a polar bear & a grizzly bear.

Afterwards we arrived at the section of the hall with marsupials. It had a kangaroo, a tasmanian devil, an echidna, a platypus, a thylacine or tasmanian tiger, in french loup de Tasmanie.

Next we arrived at the birds. There were many huge birds, like an ostrich, an emu and a cassowary, a flightless bird from Australia with dagger-like claws on its feet approximately 5 feet tall. Also we saw a little box in the section with hummingbirds.

At the middle of the hall we crossed to the other aisle when we saw display cabinets with lots of organs of many animals, like livers, brains, etc. to observe and compare. In front of that were sections with crocodiles & turtles.

At the bottom of the hall was the part with whales & dolphins. We saw an amazon river dolphin, a bottlenose dolphin, a sperm whale or cachalot & also a beluga. There were a lot of different whale skeletons.

On the next floor we saw lots of dinosaur fossils. We saw a Diplodocus, a sauropod with a tail like a whip. There was also an Allosaurus Fragilis, I mentioned this dinosaur in another blog. Close was a Carnotaurus fossil, a carnivore whose name means carnivorous bull which is a theropod. Beside it was a Sarcosuchus fossil, a huge prehistoric crocodile with huge fangs and deadly claws. Close to it was a type of plesiosaur from the plesiosauria group of long neck marine reptiles that I also explained in another blog.

On the other side of the hall there was a Megatherium, a huge sloth from the paleozoic. Pretty close was a huge Wooly Mammoth skeleton, aside from it were smaller mammoths. After we were done, we found an exit down a lot of stairs & got to the shop where we saw toys, plushies, puppets etc. We got out & started walking.