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Collection specimensSpecimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | CC0-1.0 |
Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Wallace and Banks drawersDrawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
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Suzanne Ryder | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Part-processed Indonesian Fossil SpecimensCollections 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...
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Kenneth Johnson | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
3D Cetacean Scanning3D 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...
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Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sedimentsThis 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...
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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...
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Esther Manzanares Ubeda; Zerina Johanson; Jens Najorka; Joseph Razzell Hollis et al. | Research | |
Angiosperm functional traits extracted from botanical descriptionsThis dataset provides a large-scale compilation of plant functional traits automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions of flowering plants. The taxonomic...
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
The Linnaean Plant Name Typification ProjectProject 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...
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Jacek Wajer | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Global seabird plastic ingestion databaseData from the paper: Global seabird plastic ingestion varies across phylogeny but not behavioural traits. 2026. Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Nia Potapova, Chrissie Potter, Alexander...
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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...
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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...
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Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Prof. Richard J. Aldridge conodont collectionAn 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...
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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...
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Abigail Smith; Peter Batson; Helen Jenkins; Paul Taylor; Andrea Waeschenbach | Research | License not specified |
Summary Statistics Echinoid CollectionSummary Statistics derived from a full shelf audit compared to CMS/GBIF data
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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...
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Chloe Victoria Griffiths; James Witts; Emma Bernard; Julie C.S. Brown; Richard John Twitchett | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
SPME GCMS data for bespoke conservation boxSolid phase microextraction (SPME) GCMS volatile compound data collected from a bespoke enclosure constructed from foamboard, acid-free card, plastazote foam, Tyvek and a final...
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Wren Montgomery; Fabiana Portoni | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Coral Reef Sand Data for Training SandEThis 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....
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George William Harrison; Teigan Georgia Collins; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Kenneth Johnson et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment CollectionThis 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....
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Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Micropalaeontology Collection citations and visitor numbersA 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...
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Giles Miller | Collections | License not specified |