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#MindBlownLA NHM Creatures and Mark “Crash” McCreery

When creating creatures is your life, what do you look to for inspiration?

Mark “Crash” McCreery, Creature Designer at Universal Pictures, gets hands-on and goes behind the scenes at NHM, and shares his mind-blowing discoveries in the Dinosaur Hall, Discovery Center, and more.

Visitors viewing an installation of a pregnant plesiosaur in the Dinosaur Hall

Dinosaur Hall
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Children standing around the Paleo Play Zone, a counter with imitation sand and fossils, with mounted taxidermy up high on the wall in the background

Discovery Center
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