Home Dr. Michael Cherney Interview about Giant Pterosaur at U-M Museum of Natural History Workers preparing to lift the giant pterosaur model into the atrium at the University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building. Photo by Roger Hart/Michigan Photography.

Workers preparing to lift the giant pterosaur model into the atrium at the University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building. Photo by Roger Hart/Michigan Photography.

Dr. Michael Cherney Interview about Giant Pterosaur at U-M Museum of Natural History

Workers preparing to lift the giant pterosaur model into the atrium at the University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building. Photo by Roger Hart/Michigan Photography.

Model of a giant prehistoric pterosaur is rolled into the U-M Biological Sciences Building, the new home of the university’s Museum of Natural History. The museum will reopen in its new home next spring. The 700-pound model is a hand-painted fiberglass cast with an internal steel armature. Photo by Roger Hart/Michigan Photography.
Closeup of claws on the life-size Quetzalcoatlus northropi model, installed this week at in the U-M Biological Science Building. Photo by Roger Hart/Michigan Photography.