Data Portal

Explore and download the Museum’s research and collections data.

Authors

Tags

Formats

Licenses

Users

Datasets

Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Coral reef imagery by Eileen Graham of Jamaica in the 1960s This is a collection of 1481 images that were made by Eileen Graham between 1966 and 1968 showing coral reefs from the northern coast of Jamaica. Most of the image were made of... PDF KML CSV ZIP	Kenneth Johnson		CC-BY-4.0
HyPhas Hymenoptera parasites of the Phasmida (stick insects) CSV DwC-A	Ed Baker	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Mark My Bird The 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... CSV	Gavin H. Thomas (University of Sheffield & Natural History Museum, London); Jen A. Bright (University of South Florida); Chris R. Cooney (University of Sheffield) et al.	Research	CC-BY-4.0
The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database A dataset of 3,250,404 measurements, collated from 26,114 sampling locations in 94 countries and representing 47,044 species. The data were collated from 480 existing spatial... CSV ZIP text/x-bibtex	Lawrence N Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al.	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Cicadas of India Data supporting: Price B, Allan E, Marathe K, Sarkar V, Simon C, Kunte K (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an... ZIP XLSX	Price B, Allan E, Marathe K, Sarkar V, Simon C, Kunte K	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Dataset collated for meta-analysis of the Natural History Museum's grounds This dataset contains surveyed estimates of species richness of invertebrates and plants in different habitat types, or habitats of different areas. Data was collated from... CSV TXT	Helen R P Phillips, Sandra Knapp and Andy Purvis	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) S... This is the data used to plot figure S4 in Newbold et al. (2016) “Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment”, Science... ZIP	Tim Newbold; Lawrence N Hudson; Andrew P Arnell; Sara Contu et al.	Research	CC-BY-4.0
NightLife Circuit board designs for the NightLife project to create a cheap, robust and open hardware LED light trap for aquatic insects, and raw data from the NightLife publication. Gerber Fritzing XLSX	Ed Baker & Ben Price	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Some Useful Equations and Tables for the Digitisation of Taped Sound Collections This document contains conversion tables and equations that have been useful while digitising the Natural History Museum’s collection of recorded wildlife sound as part of the... PDF	Ed Baker	Collections	CC-BY-4.0
BioAcoustica: Talks: International Congress Entomology Recorded talks from ICE mp3	Ed Baker	Collections	CC-BY-4.0
Schizorhiza stromeri (Batoidea; Chondrichthyes) rostrum with saw-teeth This movie shows the developing saw-teeth along the cartilaginous rostrum of the Cretaceous batoid ray Schizorhiza stromeri. 3D rendering performed with Avizo. mpg	Moya Meredith Smith; Alex Riley; Gareth J. Fraser; Charlie Underwood et al.	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Notes From Nature Contributor statistics from the Museum's Notes From Nature Ornithological project, transcribing bird register information from 1837 to 1990. CSV	Tim Conyers		CC-BY-4.0
IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator (Annotated building ins... Dupont et al. 2015. IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator. Supplement. PDF	Steen Dupont, Benjamin Price, Vladimir Blagoderov	Research	CC-BY-4.0
PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data This dataset contains site-level summaries of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of... CSV	Hudson, Lawrence N.; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L. L. et al.	Research	CC-BY-4.0
Images for the evaluation of automatic image segmentation algorithms A collection of 804 jpeg images, each of one or more objects from the Natural History Museum's collections. All images are 4,096 pixels in width. These images can be used to... tar.xz	Lawrence N Hudson; Vladimir Blagodarov; Blanca Huertas; Laurence Livermore et al.	Collections	CC-BY-4.0

You can also access this registry using the API (see API guide).