Aude Dinosauria will take you back 70 million years... The upper Aude valley was then a tropical wetland. Here lived the last dinosaurs...here they fed, bred and... died. For 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suddenly became extinct. Every year, the palaeontologists of Dinosauria extract their eggs and skeletons from rocks in the Espéraza region. Patiently chipped out of the rock, these bones are studied and repaired in the research laboratory, a job that the general public can observe through a large glass window.

The reconstructed skeletons are exhibited in the museum, which has 35 dinosaur species on display. Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus from all over the world rub shoulders with local dinosaurs: Rhabdodon, Ampelosaurus, Variraptor... Life-size plaster casts (up to 13 metres tall) give an impressive picture of these "terrible lizards" that once lived in the Pyrenees. The upper Aude valley also contains millions of dinosaur eggs, and the best nests are on display.

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