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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments This represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Assessing the HMS Challenger collection as a late 19th Century physicochemical surface ocean indicator using computed...	Stergios Zarkogiannis; Thomas Wood; Giles Miller; Stephen Stukins; Brett Clark; Rosalind Rickaby	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Marine Plastic Pollution Ingested by Flesh-Footed Shearwaters Introduction This image database is intended for the analysis of physical and colorimetric properties of plastic litter consumed by fledgling seabirds, but we hope that these... CSV ZIP	Joseph Razzell Hollis; Gabrielle Henderson; Jennifer Lavers; Edward Rea et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Earthworm Watch data Cleaned and anonymised data from the Earthworm Watch citizen science project run by the Natural History Museum, London and Earthwatch Institute (Europe) April 2016 to August... CSV	Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis	Citizen Science	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ray Bate Collection of mainly Cretaceous ostracods from West Africa The dataset describes a named taxonomic reference collection of 311 slides of individual specimens as well as a listing of related assemblage slides covering 4 slide cabinets.... CSV	Giles Miller; Jamie Rolt	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Butterflies and Moths of the World There are currently an estimated 112,000 to 165,000 described species of butterflies and moths (Scoble, 1999) in nearly 24,000 available and objective replacement genus-group... PDF XLSX	Natural History Museum; Brian Pitkin; Paul Jenkins	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
NHM Bird Collection Type Specimens Summary 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,... XLSX	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 twigs Welcome 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... CSV PDF	Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al.	Citizen Science	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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... CSV PDF	Natural History Museum	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Data for soil and above-ground assemblages from Burton et al. The site-level data frame and code to reproduce models in Burton et al. Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages. Human... RDS ZIP	Victoria Burton; Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Samantha L L Hill et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Catalogue of Meteorites The Catalogue of Meteorites is the world taxonomic database of all meteorite falls and finds recorded up to June 2002. The first edition was published in 1847 and consisted of... JSON PDF	Monica Grady	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
ALICE test images Images used to test different software pipelines for label extraction.	Benjamin Price; Steen Dupont; Louise Allan; Vladimir Blagoderov et al.	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Giles Miller; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Body size is highly correlated with physiological traits, fitness, and trophic interactions. These traits are subject to change if there are widespread reductions of body size... R CSV	Rungtip Wonglersak; Phillip Fenberg; Peter Langdon; Stephen J Brooks; Benjamin Price	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Centipede venom evolution These are 6 assembled venom gland transcriptomes from 5 species of centipedes. They are made available as supplementary material that is part of the following paper: Jenner, R.... ZIP	Ronald Jenner	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
The former British Petroleum microfossil collection The database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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 PY	Xavier Aubriot	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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