NHM Collections: Palaeontology Specimens

The Natural History Museum's Palaeontology collections preserve evidence of life across hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history.

This dataset includes digitised fossil specimen records together with associated collection information. Available data may include taxonomic, geological, geographic and collection-related information, although coverage varies across the collection.

The dataset can support AI and machine learning projects, scientific research, education and analytical workflows using fossil collection data.

Data is supplied in Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) format.

Interested in exploring this collection further? Submit an enquiry to the Natural History Museum team to discuss your use case.