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Release of data added to the PREDICTS database (November 2022)

This dataset comprises 1,040,752 measurements, collated from 9,544 sampling locations in 46 countries and representing 10,635 species. The data was collated from 115 existing...
Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Rachel Bates; Jessica Borer et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

CT scans of Challenger Sediments

CT scans of HMS Challenger sediments
Natural History Museum Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...

Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Ordovician conodonts from Al Fleij, Oman

This dataset includes a listing of all conodont specimens illustrated from the Amdeh Formation at Al Fleij, Oman and accompanies a paper submitted to PGA on the trilobites and...
Giles Miller Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

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...
Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Amy Scott-Murray et al. Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical a...

Here we provide machine-readable (csv files) and human readable (pdf files) tables of country, subregion and region averages for the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) and land...
Adriana De Palma; Andrew Hoskins; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Luca Borger et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Laser scanned fossil femur from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM R3542

Laser scanned fossil femur bone from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM R3542 Scanned using Faro Edge laser, processed in Geomagic Wrap, full obj file
NHM Imaging and Analysis Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Laser scanned fossil bones from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM PVR4840

Laser scanned fossil bones from Sarcosaurus woodii, NHM PVR4840 Scanned using Faro Edge laser, processed in Geomagic Wrap, full obj files
NHM Imaging and Analysis Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

3D laser scan of NHM PV R 9372 Palaeosauropus sp.footprints

3D laser scan of NHM PV R 9372 Palaeosauropus sp.footprints
NHM Imaging and Analysis Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

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 largest...
Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

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