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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 |
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 |
Linnaeus's Butterfly Type SpecimensIntroduction
This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they...
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Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
ArtefactsCultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran HostplantsPlease note: HOSTS will not be further updated or amended. This dataset is an archival resource and has been made available in full for those who wish to re-use and build on the...
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Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández | Research | Creative Commons CCZero |
British and Irish butterflies and moths: The Cockayne collectionThis collection was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Rothschild-Cockayne-Kettlewell collection with the many other important British and Irish Lepidoptera collections...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
NHM Bird Collection Type SpecimensSummary
Search and browse the bird type specimens held in the collection of the Natural History Museum, or download and re-use the dataset describing the NHM's bird holotypes,...
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Natural History Museum; Natural History Museum; Rachel L. M. Warren; C. J. O. Harrison et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
A guide to lichens on twigsWelcome to the guide to lichens on twigs. This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs, as well as the data underlying the...
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Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al. | Citizen Science | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Host-Parasite databaseIn 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today is the Parasitic worms group, devised a Host-Parasite Catalogue in which he recorded the host-parasite associations published in...
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David I Gibson; Eileen Harris; Rod Bray; Charles Hussey | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Beetle Drawer ScansDrawer scans of beetles from the Natural History Museums (NHM) collections. These scans are a mix of work produced by volunteers at the NHM as part of the VFactor program as...
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Josh Humphries | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Darwin's Fossil Mammals
View and interact with this this Toxodon cranium model on Sketchfab
3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. The initial...
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Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Amy Scott-Murray et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
A biological nano-foam: the wall of coniferous bisaccate pollenThe outer layer of the pollen grain, the exine, plays a key role in the survival of terrestrial plant life. However, the exine structure in different groups of plants remains...
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Ruxandra Cojocaru; Oonagh Mannix; Stephen Stukins; Alexandra Pacureanu; Giles Miller; Marie Capron | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminife...The size structure of plankton communities is an important determinant of their functions in marine ecosystems. However, few studies have quantified how organism size varies...
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Marina Costa Rillo; Giles Miller; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The Art of 3D InsectsA collaboration between Adobe and the Natural History Museum, London.
Adobe has partnered with the Museum to create a custom curated collection of 20 3D insect assets inspired...
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Jennifer Pullar | Public Engagement | Creative Commons CCZero |
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 |
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 |
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) |
XenophyophoresXenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated...
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Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover | Collections | License not specified |