From December 3, 2011, to January 31, 2012, at the Saint-Elme chapel in Villefranche-sur-Mer (official inauguration on Friday, December 2).
The Center for Marine World Discovery and the city of Villefranche-sur-Mer, with the support of GREC (Research Group on Cetaceans) and France Bleu Azur, are organizing the exhibition “When Whales Walked.”
Come and discover the incredible evolution and adaptation of cetaceans, from the four-legged land animals to those we know today.
No texts to read, but audio guides (adult and child versions) will lead you from bubble to bubble, telling you the amazing adaptation to the marine world of Ambulocetus, Pakicetus, and Mesonyx.
These three-dimensional models will take you back in time to the age of dinosaurs and explain why hippos are the cousins of whales…
