We recently visited the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum to see the Pterosaurs exhibit. This is an excellent exhibit and I highly recommend seeing it. It runs through October 2nd 2016.

Here is the original entrance to the museum. Now you enter off of either Exposition Boulevard or opposite the Coliseum.

The original entrance to the LA County Natural History Museum

Pterosaurs are prehistoric flying animals. Closely related to dinosaurs, they are only one of three groups of animals to have achieved powered flight, the others being bats and birds. They ranged in size from a wingspan of 18 inches to the massive quetzalcoatlus which had a 33 foot / 10 meter wingspan. I’m not sure of the name of this one, though; it greets you at the entrance to the exhibit.

This pterosaur greets you at the entrance to the exhibit.

Many fossils and reconstructions show both what these beasts looked like and how scientists learned about them.

A fine specimen in the exhibit.

Great re-creations of pterosaurs are above you throughout the exhibit.

Forget fly like an eagle, fly like a pterosaur.

They have an interactive exhibit where you can soar like a pterosaur.

After seeing the exhibit, we visited the Rose Garden to the east of the museum. Pokémon were everywhere.

The Rose Garden is right next to the museum.

Two pretty roses

Two beetles on a rose.

A jet rises from the roses.

There are pretty flowers all around the garden.