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262 datasets found

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Database of the NHM Fossil Porifera Collection with drawer label content

Database of 752 entries with drawer label content concerning hand specimen and slide cabinets. The data recorded includes taxa, geographic site and stratigraphic locations of...
Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

CT data from Fox et al. 2020 Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate ...

Original scan data for G. ruber and N. dutertrei used in the publication Fox et al. 2020 Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton...
Lyndsey Fox; Stephen Stukins; Tom Hill; Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution

The Art of 3D Insects

A collaboration between Adobe and the Natural History Museum, London. Adobe has partnered with the Museum to create a custom curated collection of 20 3D insect assets inspired...
Jennifer Pullar Public Engagement Creative Commons CCZero

Laser scanned fossil femur from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM R3542

Laser scanned fossil femur bone from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM R3542 Scanned using Faro Edge laser, processed in Geomagic Wrap, full obj file
NHM Imaging and Analysis Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Laser scanned fossil bones from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM PVR4840

Laser scanned fossil bones from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM PVR4840 Scanned using Faro Edge laser, processed in Geomagic Wrap, full obj files
NHM Imaging and Analysis Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Historical wasp occupancies: model outputs

This dataset contains model output for: Jönsson, G. M., Broad, G. R., Sumner, S. and Isaac, N. J. B. (2020). A century of social wasp occupancy trends from natural history...
Galina Mikaella Jönsson Research Creative Commons Attribution

Georeferenced UK social wasps

This dataset is a subset of DOI: 10.5519/qd.tdi9zagc. This dataset contains all UK common wasp (Vespula vulgaris, Linnaeus 1758), German wasp (Vespula germanica, Fabricius,...
Galina Mikaella Jönsson Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Molecular circumscription of new Gyrocotyle species from multiple, deep-sea C...

Chimaeras, or ratfishes, are the only extant group of holocephalan fishes and are the sole host group of gyrocotylidean cestodes, which represent a sister group of the true...
Rodney Bray; Andrea Waeschenbach; Tim Littlewood; Odd Halvorsen; Peter D Olson Research License not specified

3D laser scan of NHM PV R 9372 Palaeosauropus sp.footprints

3D laser scan of NHM PV R 9372 Palaeosauropus sp.footprints
NHM Imaging and Analysis Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Charophytes of Britain and Ireland

Charophytes, also known as stoneworts, are a group of large, multicelluar green algae that live in a variety of freshwater and brackish habitats. Charophytes play a significant...
Michelle Casanova; Joanna Wilbraham Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Coral reef imagery by Eileen Graham of Jamaica in the 1960s

This is a collection of 1481 images that were made by Eileen Graham between 1966 and 1968 showing coral reefs from the northern coast of Jamaica. Most of the image were made of...
Kenneth Johnson CC-BY-4.0

Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae

Data from the paper Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae. link to paper. Travis Park, Bastien Mennecart, Loïc Costeur, Camille Grohé & Natalie Cooper. 2019....
Travis Park; Bastien Mennecart; Loïc Costeur; Camille Grohé; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

The NHM Fossil Porifera Collection

The sponge fossil record extends to 635 million years ago, and is considered the oldest multicellular animals to inhabit the Earth. The importance of these animals is their...
Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

UK Georeferenced Master Sites iCollections Project

This Natural History Museums (NHM) digitisation project has produced 7217 georeferenced master sites representing the collection localities for approx., 500,000 NHM Lepitoptera...
Malcolm G Penn; L Duffel; Caitlin McLaughlin; Geoff Martin Collections Creative Commons Attribution

What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean...

Data from the paper: What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years. Ellen J. Coombs et al. 2019. Marine Mammal...
Ellen J Coombs; Rob Deaville; Richard C Sabin; Louise Allan et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Centipede venom evolution

These are 6 assembled venom gland transcriptomes from 5 species of centipedes. They are made available as supplementary material that is part of the following paper: Jenner, R....
Ronald Jenner Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Historical UK cetacean strandings dataset (1913-1989)

Over 100 years ago, the Natural History Museum created a project to document the cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) stranded on British beaches. Annual reports were...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Hermann Herbarium

The collection of dried plants and drawings made in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for Paul Hermann in the 1670s possesses a special importance in being one of the first major collections...
Charles E Jarvis Collections License not specified

Morelloid solanum North and Central America and the Caribbean

Specimens used in the monograph of the morelloid clade of Solanum occurring in North and Central America and the Caribbean Knapp S, Barboza GE, Bohs L, Särkinen T (2019) A...
Sandra Knapp Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Old World morelloids

Specimens used in the published monograph of the Old World members of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades) Särkinen TE, Poczai P, Barboza GE, van der Weerden GM,...
Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution