https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/video-bull-shark-texas-river/
A Texas fisherman posted a video of a bull shark he caught from the Guadalupe River. The video went viral and caused a minor panic online. ... Yes, bull sharks can live in freshwater. And no, it wasn't caught anywhere near the Hill Country. By Dac Collins. Posted on May 10, 2024 2:13 PM EDT.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2-bull-sharks-swam-up-mississippi-river-to-st-louis-study-finds
A fisherman's tale from 1937 sparked the researchers' interest in bull sharks upstream after two fishermen caught a 5-foot, 84-pound bull shark in Alton, Illinois, just 24 miles outside of St

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/scientists-confirm-sharks-travel-more-than-1-000-miles-up-the-mississippi-river/ar-BB1oR3VO
A second bull shark was confirmed in the Mississippi River in 1995. The bull shark was stuck in the grate of an intake canal at the Rush Island Power Station in Festus, Missouri , 900 miles from

https://gizmodo.com/two-bull-sharks-swam-up-the-mississippi-river-all-the-w-1847300882
A bull shark in Thailand in 2014. Image: Wikimedia Commons. Bull sharks are coastal creatures, but at least two of the animals were able to make it as far inland as St. Louis by swimming up the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT7j9EdLnqY
Bull shark caught in freshwater river.Check out my Instagram @Catch_em_all_fishing:https://www.instagram.com/catch_em_al...Enjoy our fishing and fish keeping

https://www.businessinsider.com/teen-killed-shark-attack-river-bull-sharks-often-swim-freshwater-2023-2?op=1
Carlos Grillo/Getty Images. A teen in Perth was killed by a shark after jumping in a river to swim with dolphins, officials said. Officials believe it was a bull shark, a species known for its

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/scientists-confirm-sharks-travel-more-than-1000-miles-up-the-mississippi-river/
The Mississippi River is not the only freshwater river to host traveling bull sharks in the United States. In 2010 John "Willy" Dean, a commercial fisherman on the Potomac River discovered an 8-foot-long bull shark caught in his net in Cornfield Harbor. Even though he had been fishing in the area for 30 years, this was Dean's first

https://www.thetelegraph.com/insider/article/Researchers-affirm-two-bull-shark-sightings-16308838.php
ALTON — Researchers have confirmed at least two bull shark sightings in the Mississippi River over the last 100 years. In both cases, bull sharks managed to swim upstream past St. Louis — more

https://www.actionnews5.com/2021/10/06/breakdown-why-sharks-are-no-stranger-mississippi-river-week-oct-3/
Shell and Gardner determined the bull shark sightings in the Mississippi River Basin could be described by three hypotheses. First, that far upstream travel became a new behavior for the species around 1 million years ago. While unlikely, the researchers said the bull shark's ability to survive in freshwater may be novel but also evolutionary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark
The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), also known as the Zambezi shark (informally zambi) in Africa and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a species of requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. It is known for its aggressive nature, and presence mainly in warm, shallow brackish and freshwater systems including estuaries and (usually) lower

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-bull-sharks-great-lakes-701871821910
The northernmost confirmed bull shark sighting as of 2022 was in Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis, according to Heithaus. Two fishermen caught the shark in 1937 on the Mississippi River. Another bull shark was caught by a fisherman south of St. Louis on the Mississippi River in 1995, this time near Rush Island, Missouri.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/sharks-in-the-mississippi-researches-say-its-possible-near-st-louis-35861143
Researchers verified two 20th century bull shark sightings near St. Louis. Bull sharks are well-known for their ability to move between freshwater and saltwater ecosystems, the study says. The

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/yes-sharks-have-been-spotted-in-the-mississippi-river-near-st-louis/
The other shark was caught in 1995 at the Rush Island Power Station near St. Louis. Most bull sharks in freshwater have been spotted in Florida and Louisiana. But, it is extremely rare for them to

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/a-complete-history-of-sharks-in-the-mississippi-river/
Herbert Cope and Dudge Collins were the first to catch a bull shark in the Mississippi River. It happened in September 1937 in Alton, Illinois. The shark was 5 feet long and weighed 84 pounds. Another bull shark was spotted in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1995. It was seen near Rush Island Power Station.

https://www.themeateater.com/fish/shark/could-there-actually-be-bull-sharks-in-the-midwest
An article from a Montana newspaper went viral in 2015 when it claimed that a fisherman caught a juvenile bull shark on the Missouri River, but it turned out to be an April Fool's joke. Over and over bull sharks have shown up in waters of the Great Plains, but only through fiction. That doesn't mean it'll never happen, though.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/shark-attack-threats-bull-sharks-location
The species has been spotted 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) up the Amazon River in South America and dwell in Lake Nicaragua, a freshwater lake in Central America. Bull sharks have traveled up the

https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/bull-sharks-in-great-lakes/
The first recorded sighting of a bull shark in the Great Lakes was in 1937, when a 10-foot specimen was caught near Alton, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. Since then, there have been several other reported sightings of bull sharks in the Great Lakes, including Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario.

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/verify/yes-sharks-have-been-found-in-the-mississippi-river/526-a59842e1-3570-4e2b-bc38-a18ead134e17
Credit: WQAD. A bull shark was caught by two Alton, Illinois fishermen in 1937. "Bull sharks actually have a wide tolerance for different temperatures," Shell said. "In fact, much of the lower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qVoJnUwWBU
Jeremy's in South Africa, at the Breede river, investigating why more and more bull sharks are appearing in these waters.#RiverMonsters #JeremyWade #BullShar

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/aggressive-bull-sharks-caught-in-maryland-river/
Eight-foot long, 200-pound bull sharks, to be exact; they're called bull sharks because they're known for being aggressive and unpredictable. They can survive just fine in freshwater — they've been spotted in the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois (!!). And they like to fight: experts think that most near-shore shark attacks can

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/remember-when-jeremy-wade-caught-a-massive-9-5-foot-bull-shark-in-a-south-african-river/
This is one of the reasons many scientists now believe a bull shark was responsible for the two freshwater attacks during the famous "Jersey Shore attacks of 1916." In that incident, a great white was later caught and killed with human remains in its stomach, but scientist now believe multiple animals were likely responsible for those attacks.

https://www.33rdsquare.com/could-a-bull-shark-swim-up-the-ohio-river-the-facts-explained/
In 2009, a bull shark was caught near Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi [Footnote 5]. This confirms bull sharks do enter the Ohio's mouth. An unverified 1937 newspaper report claimed a bull shark reached Pittsburgh on the Ohio by swimming from flooding on the Mississippi [Footnote 6].

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-shark-in-a-texas-river-viral-video-shows-bull-shark-recently-caught-in-the-guadalupe-river/ar-BB1mdQWC
The post included a clearly edited photo of a shark in the river. A viral TikTok video that shows a man capturing a bull shark from the Guadalupe River has nearly 800,000 views on the platform

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/shark/shark-facts/shark-infested-lakes/
A bull shark attacked a 7-year-old boy swimming in Lake Pontchartrain in 2014. The boy's name is Trent and he is the first recorded case of a bull shark attack at this specific location. There have been sharks up to 4 feet long caught by anglers at the lake and there are reports of sharks up to 6 feet long in the water.

https://www.kold.com/2024/06/26/19-year-old-student-punches-fights-off-shark-that-bit-her-vacation/
DURANT, Okla. (KXII/Gray News) - A 19-year-old woman on vacation with her family in Texas fought off a bull shark with just her bare hands. She is still recovering from her injuries nearly a month later. Damiana Humphrey, 19, goes on a family vacation yearly, but having visited Galveston Beach

https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/06/a-great-white-shark-really-end-seine-20985965/?ico=trending-module_author_katherine-fidler_item-6
The last time a large shark was caught in central London, way back in 1787, it wasn't in terribly good shape - although is suspected of having eaten a sailor at some point, on account of a