A fish found only in waterways near the Scioto River has gone the way of the dinosaurs and the passenger pigeon. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources declared the Scioto madtom extinct after 50 years on the state’s endangered species list. The was a small, nocturnal species of catfish. According to ODNR, “The Scioto […]
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