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Collection specimens

Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
Natural History Museum Collections CC0-1.0

Index Lot collection

Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Wallace and Banks drawers

Drawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
Suzanne Ryder Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Part-processed Indonesian Fossil Specimens

Collections of marine invertebrates from the Miocene and Pliocene of East Kalimantan Indonesia that have not been identified to specific taxa so cannot be added to the NHMUK...
Kenneth Johnson Collections Creative Commons Attribution

3D Cetacean Scanning

3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007. The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the largest...
Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments

This represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Reassessing the HMS Challenger collection as a late 19th century surface ocean indicator using X-ray microcomputed...
Stergios Zarkogiannis; Thomas Wood; Giles Miller; Stephen Stukins; Brett Clark Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

First report of the biomineral whitlockite from the fossil record of holoceph...

Data from paper: First report of the biomineral whitlockite from the fosssil record of holocpehalans submitted to Royal Society Open Science All the images featured in the...
Esther Manzanares Ubeda; Zerina Johanson; Jens Najorka; Joseph Razzell Hollis et al. Research

Angiosperm functional traits extracted from botanical descriptions

This dataset provides a large-scale compilation of plant functional traits automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions of flowering plants. The taxonomic...
Natural History Museum Research Creative Commons Attribution

The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project

Project Summary Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) introduced the consistent use of binomial names for both plants and animals, validly publishing over 9,000 plant names. Since 1981 the...
Jacek Wajer Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Global seabird plastic ingestion database

Data from the paper: Global seabird plastic ingestion varies across phylogeny but not behavioural traits. 2026. Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Nia Potapova, Chrissie Potter, Alexander...
Stephanie Avery-Gomm; Nia Potapova; Chrissie Potter; Alexander Bond et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...

Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

The Herbarium of John Ray FRS (1627 – 1705)

John Ray F.R.S. (1627-1705) was the leading English naturalist of the 17th century. The son of a blacksmith, born in Black Notley in Essex, Ray was educated at Trinity College...
Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Prof. Richard J. Aldridge conodont collection

An initial listing of UK Silurian assemblage slides from the collection of Prof. Richard J. Aldridge formerly of the University of Leicester. The file synthesises data from the...
Richard R. W. Knight Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Unexpected high taxonomic diversity in the bryozoan family Horneridae (order ...

The taxonomically challenging cyclostome bryozoan family Horneridae is abundant and diverse in the waters around Aotearoa New Zealand. Using a combination of molecular and...
Abigail Smith; Peter Batson; Helen Jenkins; Paul Taylor; Andrea Waeschenbach Research License not specified

Summary Statistics Echinoid Collection

Summary Statistics derived from a full shelf audit compared to CMS/GBIF data
Hugh F Carter Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Slimehead size through time: testing the temperature-size relationship in Lat...

As global temperatures rise, fish are predicted to become smaller. Body size is a fundamental trait that impacts many aspects of an animal's life history and ecology, and...
Chloe Victoria Griffiths; James Witts; Emma Bernard; Julie C.S. Brown; Richard John Twitchett Research Creative Commons Attribution

SPME GCMS data for bespoke conservation box

Solid phase microextraction (SPME) GCMS volatile compound data collected from a bespoke enclosure constructed from foamboard, acid-free card, plastazote foam, Tyvek and a final...
Wren Montgomery; Fabiana Portoni Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Coral Reef Sand Data for Training SandE

This repository contains all the training data used to train the Sediment Analysis Neural-network Data-engine (SAND-e). SAND-e was created as part of the PhD thesis of G....
George William Harrison; Teigan Georgia Collins; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Kenneth Johnson et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection

This is a dataset to accompany a paper published in 2025 in the journal Historical Biology: Miller, C. Giles and Jouet-Sarkany, Monique M. H. 2025. Sir John Murray’s H.M.S....
Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Micropalaeontology Collection citations and visitor numbers

A dataset to support the figures in a publication in Revue de Micropaleontologie on the Natural History Museum Microfossil Collection. Data derived mainly from annotations in...
Giles Miller Collections License not specified

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