diff --git a/src/datasets/utils/extract.py b/src/datasets/utils/extract.py
index bf6f5963033..06c9e7c09f4 100644
--- a/src/datasets/utils/extract.py
+++ b/src/datasets/utils/extract.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import bz2
 import gzip
 import lzma
 import os
@@ -157,9 +158,29 @@ def extract(input_path: str, output_path: str):
             dctx.copy_stream(ifh, ofh)
 
 
+class Bzip2Extractor:
+    @staticmethod
+    def is_extractable(path: str) -> bool:
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            try:
+                header_magic_bytes = f.read(3)
+            except OSError:
+                return False
+            if header_magic_bytes == b"BZh":
+                return True
+            else:
+                return False
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def extract(input_path, output_path):
+        with bz2.open(input_path, "rb") as compressed_file:
+            with open(output_path, "wb") as extracted_file:
+                shutil.copyfileobj(compressed_file, extracted_file)
+
+
 class Extractor:
     #  Put zip file to the last, b/c it is possible wrongly detected as zip (I guess it means: as tar or gzip)
-    extractors = [TarExtractor, GzipExtractor, ZipExtractor, XzExtractor, RarExtractor, ZstdExtractor]
+    extractors = [TarExtractor, GzipExtractor, ZipExtractor, XzExtractor, RarExtractor, ZstdExtractor, Bzip2Extractor]
 
     @classmethod
     def is_extractable(cls, path, return_extractor=False):
diff --git a/tests/test_extract.py b/tests/test_extract.py
index 0967f98a670..8533084930e 100644
--- a/tests/test_extract.py
+++ b/tests/test_extract.py
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ def test_zstd_extractor(zstd_file, tmp_path, text_file):
 
 
 @require_zstandard
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("compression_format", ["gzip", "xz", "zstd"])
-def test_extractor(compression_format, gz_file, xz_file, zstd_file, tmp_path, text_file):
-    input_paths = {"gzip": gz_file, "xz": xz_file, "zstd": zstd_file}
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("compression_format", ["gzip", "xz", "zstd", "bz2"])
+def test_extractor(compression_format, gz_file, xz_file, zstd_file, bz2_file, tmp_path, text_file):
+    input_paths = {"gzip": gz_file, "xz": xz_file, "zstd": zstd_file, "bz2": bz2_file}
     input_path = str(input_paths[compression_format])
     output_path = str(tmp_path / "extracted.txt")
     assert Extractor.is_extractable(input_path)