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Datasets

Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Collection specimens Popular Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection dwc	Natural History Museum	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...	Richard Sabin, Kate Burton, Natalie Cooper, Anjali Goswami	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Integrative taxonomy at the nexus of population divergence and speciation in ... We describe two diminutive species of rattlesnakes (Genus Crotalus) from small nearshore islands off the coast of Baja California in the western Gulf of California, Mexico. In... STRU NEX TXT	Jesse M. Meik, Sarah Schaack, Oscar Flores-Villela, Jeffrey W. Streicher	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Eggplant wild relative plastome phylogeny The data set comprises the original data files and scripts used to generate analyses in the publication Aubriot X, Knapp S, Syfert MM, Poczai P, Buerki S (2018) Shedding new... XLS text/x-python	Xavier Aubriot	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Jins_Uropeltidae Uropeltidae mtDNA alignments and morphological data fasta XLS	V.J. Jins, F.L. Sampaio & D.J.Gower	Research	License not specified
The Fossil Historical Collections There are three historical collections in the Palaeontology which have great importance for the history of the NHM. These are the Sloane, König and Pennant Collections. Over 100... JPEG TIFF	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Ludlow Museum Fossils in Shropshire Project data The Fossils in Shropshire project dataset includes collections data and images of geological specimens from Shropshire Museums collections. The collection is principally... CSV	Daniel Lockett, Jackie Tweddle	Collections	CC0-1.0
The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History Museum Sir 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... tif JPEG TIFF PDF	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Darwin's Fossil Mammals 3D 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...	Pip Brewer, Kate Burton, Adrian Lister	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Old World morelloids Specimens 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,... XLS CSV PDF	Sandra Knapp	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Coral Reefs of Discovery Bay Jamaica in 1969 Video including underwater footage of the reefs around Discovery Bay Jamaica made by Lynton Land in 1969 and 1970 mp4 PDF	Lynton Land and others	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Psylloidea phylogenomics Resolving the psyllid tree of life and understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological... nexus TXT XLSX PDF	Diana Percy	Research	Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
Index Lot collection Popular Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Baleen stable isotope data This dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the... CSV ZIP grd gri	Clive N Trueman; Andrew L Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Moth Ultraviolet Reflectance Survey The 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....	Elisa Cane, Jonathan Laventhol, Sophie Ledger	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes Landmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090... TPS CSV	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... CSV	Helen R. P. Phillips, John M. Halley, J. Nicolas Urbina-Cardona and Andy Purvis	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collection A catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum. The... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	License not specified
Phthiraptera collection The 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... PDF	Olha Schedrina, Louise Allan, Paul Brown, Laurence Livermore, Vincent S. Smith	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Artefacts Popular Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution

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