Musée parc des Dinosaures : Mèze

In March 1996, prospecting amongst the rocky outcrops on the Mèze plain that date from the Mesozoic Era, more precisely from the Upper Cretaceous (65 million years ago), Alain Cabot discovered a great many dinosaur nests with one of the world's largest collections of eggs laid by several species of dinosaur.

The discovery helped show that there was a continuity between the sites previously discovered in French Provence and the Pyrenees. During the Cretaceous Period, southern Europe was an archipelago lying much nearer the equator than it is today. The area around Mèze was a vast tropical plain cut by large rivers where herds and flocks of dinosaurs came to lay their eggs.