The Parade of AnimalsFriday afternoon with my MeetIn group, we went to the Grande Galeries d'Evolution at the Musée de Histoire Natural in Paris. It was gorgeous! I definately recommend it if you come for a visit (p.s. American Airlines has roud trip tix from Minneapolis to Paris for $630). The arcitechture was beautiful. It was a four floor building with an open floor plan and a basement for new exhibits.
View from the second floorThe feature exhibit was the evolution of whales and sea mammels. I learned how These creature evolved from small four legged, hairy, sharp toothed land animals to enormous toothless, sea creatures. I laso learned how sea mammels evolved from two nostrils on the nose to one blow hole on he top of the head. And that Whales hear with vibrations that travel through their chin bone into their earwhich is located at under the eyes behind the mouth.
Skeleton of a giant whale. Notice no eye sockets. It's like a swimming mouth!
Pehistoric sea mammel. See the tiny back legs on the tail?On th first floor are the permenant exhibits. The parade of animals is in the middle and you travel through history as you go up. This reinactment of a tiger attack is a true sory. The guy in the basket on safari was saved when the front of the basket gave way under the weight of the tiger. The tiger was killed the next day.
Proof of the huge size of a turkey for the frenchiesHere some excellent animals that survived history:
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