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#MindBlownLA NHM Creatures and Mark “Crash” McCreery

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

Crash McCreery holding dinosaur fossil

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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