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294 datasets found

DatasetAuthorTypeLicence

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

Catalysts for change: museum gardens in a planetary emergency

A csv file containing collector and identification records for herbarium specimens found that have been collected in the Museum grounds. Dates range from 1865 to 2022. As the...
Sandra Knapp; Chris Dixon; John Hunnex Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Darwin's Fossil Mammals

View and interact with this Toxodon cranium model on Sketchfab 3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. Scanning,...
Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Jennifer Pullar et al. Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Conodont collection database

The database was first deposited in 2018 but has been updated in 2026 as supplementary information for a paper on the museum Conodont Collection. The dataset provides...
Giles Miller Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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

Clifford Herbarium

The herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated...
Charles Jarvis Collections License not specified

Mark My Bird

The Mark My Bird dataset comprises 3D scans of bird bills from the ornithology collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Mark My Bird is part of a European Research...
Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney Research CC-BY-4.0

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; Helen Jenkins; Paul Taylor; Andrea Waeschenbach Research License not specified

Join the Dots collection-level descriptions

The records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and...
Natural History Museum Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Underwater Forests Survey

Participants survey kelp on the shoreline by running a monthly survey at a given location at the lowest tide of the month. The survey consists of: Taking a photo of the kelp...
Natural History Museum Citizen Science Creative Commons CCZero

The Fungarium Sequencing Project: Natural History Museum Samples

The Fungarium Sequencing Project (FSP) was launched in 2024 to sequence genomes of fungal type specimens across the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBG Kew), Royal Botanic Garden...
Muhammad Usman; Juliet Anderson; Mark Carine; Debra Turner et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution

UK Peatland species functional traits

This dataset provides plant functional trait information automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions for a curated set of UK peatland plant species. The...
Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit Research Creative Commons Attribution

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...
Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit Research Creative Commons Attribution

The Seaweed Breakthrough

The Seaweed Breakthrough initiative is a global initiative aimed to protect seaweeds through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2030 Breakthrough...
Juliet Brodie; Ben Jennings; Patrick Sullivan; Elizabeth J, Cottier-Cook et al. Research License not specified

Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E...

Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'...
Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution

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

CT scans of Challenger Sediments

CT scans of HMS Challenger sediments
Natural History Museum Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Diatoms Herbarium Collection

The Diatoms Herbarium is an ancillary collection in the Diatoms Collections at the Natural History Museum. It comprises processed and unprocessed samples preserved dried...
Edgley Cesar Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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