The Local France

Eggs en Provence: France’s unique dinosaur egg trove

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:48:21 +0200

At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalised by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a palaeontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay, looking for fossils.

Dinosaur skeleton sells for over €1 million in France

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:18:34 +0100

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton sold for more than one million euros at auction in the eastern French city of Lyon late Saturday, the Aguttes auction house said.

Frenchman Bruno finds dinosaur bone in garden

Fri, 04 May 2012 17:02:00 +0200

While tending to his flowerbeds in Louplande, west France, one Frenchman made a very rare discovery - a 100 million-year-old dinosaur bone.