Datasets
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Collection specimensSpecimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Ludlow Museum Fossils in Shropshire Project dataThe Fossils in Shropshire project dataset includes collections data and images of geological specimens from Shropshire Museums collections. The collection is principally...
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Daniel Lockett, Jackie Tweddle | Collections | CC0-1.0 |
The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History MuseumSir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is one of the most important geologists of all time and was the pioneer of the principle of uniformitarianism. He was able to see that the present...
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Consuelo Sendino | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Darwin's Fossil Mammals3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. The initial upload will be of all surviving specimens of Toxodon collected by...
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Pip Brewer, Kate Burton, Adrian Lister | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Old World morelloidsSpecimens 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,...
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Sandra Knapp | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Coral Reefs of Discovery Bay Jamaica in 1969Video including underwater footage of the reefs around Discovery Bay Jamaica made by Lynton Land in 1969 and 1970
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Lynton Land and others | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Psylloidea phylogenomicsResolving the psyllid tree of life and understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological...
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Diana Percy | Research | Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) |
Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Baleen stable isotope dataThis dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the...
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Clive N Trueman; Andrew L Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Moth Ultraviolet Reflectance SurveyThe moth ultraviolet (UV) reflectance survey dataset is constituted of images showing the portion above 360 nm of the UVA reflection of specimens belonging to 176 moth species....
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Elisa Cane, Jonathan Laventhol, Sophie Ledger | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetesLandmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090...
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Charlotte E Page, Natalie Cooper | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area...Habitat fragmentation accompanies habitat loss, and drives additional biodiversity change; but few global biodiversity models explicitly analyse the effects of both...
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Helen R. P. Phillips, John M. Halley, J. Nicolas Urbina-Cardona and Andy Purvis | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collectionA catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum.
The...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | License not specified |
Phthiraptera collectionThe Phthiraptera collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted parasitic lice material at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes the main collection and the...
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Olha Schedrina, Louise Allan, Paul Brown, Laurence Livermore, Vincent S. Smith | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
ArtefactsCultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
iCollectionsThe iCollections dataset comprises the records of all the British and Irish butterfly specimens in the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, London....
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Gordon L J Paterson; Sara Albuquerque; Vladimir Blagoderov; Steve Brooks et al. | Collections | CC0-1.0 |
The former British Petroleum microfossil collectionThe database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
NHM Interactions BankA combined ecological interactions dataset from various projects at the Natural History Museum, London. The data is aggregated from a number of individual projects hosted in the...
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Ed Baker; Ian J. Kitching; George W. Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copyAn up to date export of the UK Species Inventory database in its simplified form. This dataset contains all names and all taxonomic concepts in 2 tables, which can be used to...
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Chris Raper | Citizen science | License not specified |
Chagos Coral Collection at the NHM LondonThe Natural History Museum, London, holds a collection of >6000 specimens of dry-preserved hard (mainly scleractinian) corals from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean...
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Andrew Cabrinovic, Miranda Lowe, Kenneth Johnson, Natalina Bonassera, Mia Williams, Charles Sheppard | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |