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Eagan's Blue Rhino Studio brings <br />mammoths to the masses <br /> <br />Tim Quady, co-owner of Blue Rhino Studio, takes a look at a small model of a huge <br /> cottonwood tree they're building for Roseville's Harriet Alexander Nature Center <br />at Blue Rhino Studio in Eagan on Monday, December 29, 2014. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) <br />By Nick Woltman <br />nwoltman@pioneerpress.com <br />POSTED: 01/03/2015 01:38:29 PM CST|UPDATED: A DAY AGO <br />Visitors to "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age," a traveling exhibit on display <br />at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, come face to face with life-sized animals that <br />have been extinct for more than 10,000 years. <br />But you'd swear they're fresh from the taxidermist. <br />They were built at Blue Rhino Studio in Eagan, a custom exhibit design and fabrication firm <br />that works with museums, zoos and visitor centers to create lifelike models and dioramas. <br />"It's a very unusual job," said Tim Quady, the company's owner and co-founder. <br />Blue Rhino started out more than 16 years ago doing work for theme parks and restaurants <br />in addition to museums. Quady has narrowed its focus over the years to projects that <br />"engage, inspire and educate," he said. <br />Most recently, the company completed a series of six different animal habitat dioramas for <br />an exhibit opening later this month at the San Diego Natural History Museum. <br />Like most of their projects, Blue Rhino was a subcontractor on the year-long San Diego job, <br />this time working with the Science Museum of Minnesota. <br /> <br />