The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) is an underrated shark that lives in the shadows of the great white shark and the tiger shark. Yet, did you know that the bite of the bull shark is the strongest ...

They have been known to go hundreds of miles in the Amazon River ... "They go up rivers quite a ways," Castro said. A bull shark in the Pearl River in Mississippi? Two Mississippi fishermen ...

In 1937, for example, two fishermen caught a bull shark near Alton, Illinois, some 1,750 miles upriver from New Orleans. The species is also known to travel even farther up the Amazon River ...

Furthermore, Willink says bull sharks have been documented as far as 2,000 miles upstream in the Amazon River, a few hundred miles farther than the distance between Lake Michigan and the nearest ...

As the Ohio River reached near-record-setting flood levels recently, a recurrent rumor surfaced about the alleged danger of bull sharks in its waters. The theory? That bull sharks swim up the ...