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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 |
Catalysts for change: museum gardens in a planetary emergencyA 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...
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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,...
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Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Jennifer Pullar et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Conodont collection databaseThe 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...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
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 |
Clifford HerbariumThe 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...
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Charles Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
Mark My BirdThe 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...
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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...
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Abigail Smith; Helen Jenkins; Paul Taylor; Andrea Waeschenbach | Research | License not specified |
Join the Dots collection-level descriptionsThe 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...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Underwater Forests SurveyParticipants 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...
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Natural History Museum | Citizen Science | Creative Commons CCZero |
The Fungarium Sequencing Project: Natural History Museum SamplesThe 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...
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Muhammad Usman; Juliet Anderson; Mark Carine; Debra Turner et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
UK Peatland species functional traitsThis dataset provides plant functional trait information automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions for a curated set of UK peatland plant species. The...
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Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
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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Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
The Seaweed BreakthroughThe Seaweed Breakthrough initiative is a global initiative aimed to protect seaweeds through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2030 Breakthrough...
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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'...
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Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Charophytes of Britain and IrelandCharophytes, 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...
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Michelle Casanova; Joanna Wilbraham | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
CT scans of Challenger SedimentsCT scans of HMS Challenger sediments
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Diatoms Herbarium CollectionThe Diatoms Herbarium is an ancillary collection in the Diatoms Collections at the Natural History Museum. It comprises processed and unprocessed samples preserved dried...
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Edgley Cesar | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |