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. The bid to create a global digital museum ha been welcomed by scientists, who say it will enable them to study valuable specimens that are currently hidden in museum drawers. Museums including London Natural History Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington DC are involved. They have get out ambitious plans to digitise millions of specimens. Digitally recording the 40 million fossils at the Smithsonian will take an estimated 50 years However, five years into the project, the team say is bringing dark date into the light for crucial research Kathy Hollis from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, who is leading the project there explained, "We are trying to make our entire collection available digitally for researchers to use online from anywhere in the world. Were pretty sure that this is the largest fossil collection in the world" For the last majority of the digitisation project museums will capture high quality images and all of the key information-age, species, where the specimen was discovered-to make available online. That alone is valuable-studying digital marine fossils, for example is already enabling researchers to understand how marine life in changing sea level and ocean temperature. However, the most detailed digital date can actually be better than a read fossil Prof Eaily Rayfield at the University of Bristol uses CT scan of dinosaurs skull and other bones to build computer models for research. Prof Rayfields colleague at Bristol University, Prof Philip Donoghue, uses digital scan of ancient, fossilised microorganisms to produce large-scale versions that reveal far more details about how they lived. He said that a digital fossil would transform scientists ability to study life on Earth What is the toxic of the text?