The Paläontologisches Museum is a paleontological museum, presenting collections devoted to natural history and the evolution of living organisms from all eras of Earth's history. The museum presents plant fossils, the skeleton of a triceratops, giant deer, cave bear and saber-toothed tiger. The collection's pride is an extremely rare archeology.
Archeopteryx is a small fossil reptile with a total length of about 45 cm that lived 150 million years ago. His remains were discovered around the town of Solnhofen in Bavaria. Described by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, he became an archeological sensation - a long-sought-after "missing link" of evolution, a transitional form between reptiles and birds.
The Paläontologisches Museum is the second, next to the Geological Museum, facility of the Bavarian State Paleontology and Geology Collection - a huge collection of over 2.5 million exhibits of minerals and paleontological artifacts.
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