Mobilising the world's Natural History - Open Data + Citizen Science

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The document discusses digitizing the vast collection of specimens at the Natural History Museum in London, including 80 million total specimens with 30 million insects, 7 million fossils, and 5,000 meteorites. It also mentions an exhibit called "The Killer Within: Wasps, but not as you know them" and the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity.

Science

Mobilising
Natural
History
@NHM_Digitise

80m specimens
…30m insects
…7m fossils
…5,000 meteorites

The Killer Within: Wasps,
but not as you know them

Angela
Marmont
Centre for UK
Biodiversity

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