The Lauer Foundation summer intern, Leiana Santoro is working hard on projects.

The Lauer Foundation is excited to be involved with research projects with Dr. Victoria McCoy and Andrew Young.

Several researchers gathered at the Lauer Foundation to start a collaboration researching the scorpions and arachnids of the Mazon Creek lagerstätte.

Dr. Calvin So visited the Lauer Foundation to examine three specimens for his project on amphibamiforms from the Mazon Creek lagerstätte.

In early June two French fossil shark researchers visited the Lauer Foundation to examine and document Cretaceous shark specimens from Lebanon.

Our good friend, Dr. Dave Hone from Queen Mary’s University, has published a research paper on two Pterosaur specimens in the Foundation collection.

Dr. Andy Heckert from Appalachian State University has helped the Lauer Foundation by introducing us to  one of his current students.

Dr, Jérémy Anquetin from the Jurassica Museum in Switzerland along with his student Gaël  Spicher visited the Lauer Foundation from April 1 thru the 5th.

A new shipment of important Jurassic and Permian fossils arrived on March 31.

Researchers Skye McDavid and Henry Thomas visited the Lauer Foundation in early March 2025.

We acquired an interesting little ray at the Tucson show in January which may be something new

On February 3, 2025 a paper titled “Gregarious behavior in Carboniferous cyclical crustaceans” was published in the journal Biology Letters.

Chris Duffin worked with us during his visit in October 2024 to write and compile two new research papers that were published.

Lauer Foundation contributes to Alex Ruebenstahl Study

A trip to Tucson in January is always a welcome escape from the cold of Chicago. Once again, we met with old friends and research colleagues.

We are please to announce our friend and colleague Giovanni Serafini has defended his Phd.  We met the now Dr. Serafini in 2021 in the midst of Covid.

Several years ago at the Tucson show, David Ward and the Lauer Foundation acquired a possible skull of Otodus from the phosphate mines of Morocco.

The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their close relatives, the dinosaurs.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Russell Bicknell is a Research Associate of the Lauer Foundation.

As a result of Dr. Klug’s, University of Zurich, visit to the Lauer Foundation in May 2024 several projects were started.