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Announcements

SketchFab and the Changing Landscape of 3D Data Platforms for Cultural Heritage and Natural History
2024-10-02

Some of you may have already read about the recent news from Epic Games that SketchFab will be winding down, with some (but not all) content on SketchFab being migrated to a new platform named “Fab” sometime in October. This news has prompted some...

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Release 2.36.0
2024-10-02

What's Changed

  • Allow Sentry to not report certain types of errors by @JulieWinchester in https://github.com/MorphoSource/MorphoSource/pull/1548
  • Example list DOI submission with notes by @JocelynTriplett in https://github.com/MorphoSource/Mo...
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Release 2.35.4
2024-09-30

What's Changed

  • Hotfix: Organization Collection migration by @JulieWinchester in https://github.com/MorphoSource/MorphoSource/pull/1570
  • Hotfix: Organization collection migration by @JulieWinchester in https://github.com/MorphoSource/MorphoSo...
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Featured Projects

Majungasaurus crenatissimus - FMNH PR 2100
Digitizing the Florida Museum of Natural History's Herpetology collections
Thylacine Whole Body 3D Surfaces: Data supporting new body mass estimates for the recently extinct thylacine
oUTCT PEN
Western Interior Seaway
Anatomical sciuromorphy in "protrogomorph" rodents

Repository Statistics

Media Files
205,306
Physical Objects Represented
72,131
Data Projects
2,532
Taxonomies (GBIF Linked)
22,235
Taxonomies (User Created)
30,360
Collections and Facilities
1,314
Users
22,928
Contributors
2,300

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MorphoSource currently has 92689 published 3D models, largely biological skeletal material. You can view all of these in your browser with no required software. 52296 of these media can be freely downloaded for further visualization and measurement. The remaining 40393 media can usually be downloaded after a simple request process. You can use our search page to see all of these published web-viewable 3D models, and you can refine the search further by anatomical element or by genus and species.

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