The Endangered Species List Is Full of Ghosts

Like dozens of others, the Scioto madtom has probably been extinct for years even though it’s still listed as “endangered”

Model of a coelacanth, thought extinct but rediscovered in 1938. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

By Dyani Sabin

The only remaining evidence of the Scioto madtom’s existence floats in jars of ethanol tucked in the bowels of a squat warehouse in Ohio…