2010 will be the year of the DINOSAURS in Paris! To keep you waiting until the « In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs » exhibition at the Muséum histoire naturelle in April, here’s a new exhibition at the Palais de la découverte just near the Champs Elysées, with animated, life-size beasts that’ll make you shiver in awe!The dinosaurs are back at the Palais de la découverte, and the exhibition mentions ‘hunger’ because it’s all about the eating habits of these strange animals. ‘Vegetarian’ dinosaurs ate plantes, but as there was no grass at the time, what vegetables did they eat exactly?

By looking at extremely realistic animatronic models, life-size reconstitutions of skeletons and a reproduction of a dig site for dinosaur bones, you’ll be able to better understand how these huge beasts fed.

Numerous species are shown and explained, from Brachiosaurus to Edmontosaurus, and not forgetting the Tyrannosaurus Rex and (our personal favourite since the Jurassic Park films) the Velociraptor… The feeding habits of the Oviraptor are particularly scrutinised, as it is the only dinosaur whose diet is unknown (we’re guessing it wasn’t pizza).

Throughout the exhibition, you’ll be given more and more clues – some of them contradictory – that will help you come to your own conclusions.

The exhibition La faim des dinosaures (The Hunger of the Dinosaurs) is at the Palais de la découverte (here)from 10th December 2009 – 2nd May 2010.

Open Tuesday – Saturday, 9.30am – 6pm and Sundays and public holidays from 10am – 7pm (gates close 30 minutes beofre the end). Closed Mondays, 1st January and 1st May.

Admission 7€ / 4,50€

Official site (in French unfortunately): www.palais-decouverte.fr