Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy and its collection

The Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy in Paris, in the Jardin des plantes, is part of the French National Museum of Natural History. The collections on display here came mostly from the great expeditions of the traveler-naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries and from the Ménagerie, the zoo of the Jardin des Plantes. The paleontology gallery exhibits a collection of fossil vertebrates (especially dinosaurs and other extinct animals) and invertebrates. The Comparative Anatomy Gallery holds around a 1,000 skeletons and interprets their organization and classification.