Dinosaur - activities

Jurassic illumination: the 2024-2025 Festival of Lights at the Jardin des Plantes - photos

This year, the Jardin des Plantes is hosting a new edition of its famous lantern trail, entitled "Jurassique en voie d'Illumination". On view from November 20 to January 19, 2024, this exhibition takes us back in time this year. Monumental creatures come to life through majestic light sculptures, transforming the park into a veritable open-air museum. Explore the mysteries of the Jurassic period, while enjoying a magical stroll under the stars. A not-to-be-missed event at the end of the year.

Vulcain, the largest dinosaur auctioned this Saturday, November 16 in Dampierre-en-Yvelines

The Château de Dampierre-en-Yvelines is set to host an unprecedented event: the auction of Vulcan, a 150 million-year-old specimen of Apatosaurus, the largest dinosaur ever offered for sale. Scheduled for Saturday, November 16, 2024, this exceptional auction promises to exceed its estimate of between 3 and 5 million euros. You still have until November 15 to admire it before it leaves for its buyer.

The largest dinosaur to be discovered at Château de Dampierre, back in the Jurassic period

For dinosaur fans and budding paleontologists, the Jurassic is coming to Château de Dampierre from July 13 to November 15, 2024. Vaucain, the largest dinosaur ever sold at auction in the world, will take up summer residence in the château's Orangerie.

Paris: what's that silver tyrannosaurus skeleton on the Port de la Conférence?

Attention contemporary art lovers... If you're wandering around Port de la Conférence, in the 8th arrondissement, you're bound to have seen a large Tyrannosaurus sculpture at the Bateaux-Mouches pier. But what is this silver skeleton? We tell you all about it!

When dinosaurs parade in Paris

Dinosaurs marching in Paris? Here is the funny show that was offered to tourists and Parisians this Thursday, February 2, 2023. From the Trocadero to the Seine via the Louvre, it's about twenty velociraptors that came to astonish the passers-by, we tell you why.

A dinosaur in Paris: come and admire the skeleton of an iguanodon for free at the Hotel Drouot

From October 17 to 19, 2022, come and discover the fossilized skeleton of Zephyr, a 9.84ft-long dinosaurs displayed for free at the Hotel Drouot.

T-Rex, extra time, the compelling exhibition 2018 at Paris Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle

A T-Rex expects you until November 4, 2018 at Paris Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Go and discover this exhibition enjoying an extra time facing the success it met, to discover this specimen that is both terrifying and fascinating. Come along and learn more about the famous Tyrannosaurus rex!