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

Earlier this year, an international group of scientists published a paper in Science Advances on the draft genome of the little bush moa ( Anomalopteryx didiformis ), 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.