CARE-ing for Indigenous nonhuman genomic data — rethinking our approach

Earlier this year, an international group of scientists published a paper in <i>Science</i><i>Advances</i> on the draft genome of the little bush moa (<i>Anomalopteryx didiformis</i>), one of about nine species of extinct flightless birds endemic to Aotearoa (New Zealand). The genome was sequenced from the ancient DNA of a "poorly provenanced" fossil bone acquired by the Royal Ontario Museum. It held important clues about the moa's evolutionary history and aspects of its biology.