The Lauer Foundation acquired David Jenkins’ rare Chimaera tooth plate collection, ensuring its availability to the scientific community.

Dave Hone featured Petrodactyle wellnhoferi in his latest Podcast of Terrible Lizards. It's a wonderful discussion with co-host Iszi...

The Lauer Foundation is proud to announce our latest research paper describing the new Pterosaur Petrodactyle wellnhoferi.

A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) was named today by a team of British,...

The 8th Mesozoic Fishes and Aquatic Tetrapods Conference was held July 10-14 at the STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE, Stuttgart, Germany....

Dave Hone, Queen Mary University, and Adam Fitch from Virginia Tech visited the Lauer Foundation from July 6-12 2023. This was a return...

The Lauer Foundation and its partner institutions visited the Foundation’s Triassic Micro Vertebrate site after the MTE conference in...

Bruce and Rene Lauer along with David and Alison Ward from the NHM-UK attended the Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems Conference in Salt...

Bruce Lauer joined our colleagues David and Alison Ward on a Geology and Paleontology trip to Morocco. We were joined by two other...

On May 5, 2023, we were happy to finally return for an outreach program for Johnson Elementary School, CUSD 200, Multicultural Day...

Martin Ebert, a researcher from the Jura Museum in Eichstätt, Germany, visited the Foundation to examine and study the fossil fish...

A complete fossil shark from the Cretaceous of Lebanon has landed. Roy Nohra, a quarry owner in Lebanon, offered the shark to the...

On April 14, 2023 the Lauer Foundation presented a fossil program to Mrs. Vincent’s gifted second grade class plus two additional second...

The Lauer Foundation has created a Research Associate Program. Research Associates are individuals who have a long-term collaboration...

Victor Beccari from the SNSB, Munich, Germany approached the Foundation to work on a specimen of Oenosaurus from the Schaudiberg quarry...

Our Research Paper "Hybodus hauffianus Fraas, 1895 from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) of Dormettingen, SW Germany” Was published today...

We returned to Sandburg Elementary School in North Wheaton to participate in their Multicultural event. Normally we would present our...

On February 15, 2023 Dr. Arjan Mann, Post Doc at the Smithsonian, flew to Chicago to visit the Lauer Foundation. Arjan is interested in...

The Lauer Foundation announces a new research paper: Chimaeroid egg cases from the Late Jurassic of the Solnhofen area (S Germany) Our...

Bruce and Rene joined David and Alison Ward to participate in the week long post conference field trip in Thailand. This area of...