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RajT88yesterday at 3:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

Totally wild factoid: Bull sharks have been caught in tributaries of the Mississippi River in Illinois. (Back before they built all the dams)


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dragonwriteryesterday at 5:00 PM

Yeah, bull sharks are the most common and wide-ranging of the sharks that are adapted to survive in a wide range of salinity levels.

darkteflonyesterday at 8:09 PM

Bull sharks are often found in rivers tens of kilometres from the ocean in Queensland.

cucumber3732842yesterday at 5:12 PM

That's the kind of rare and highly luck based curiosity they ought to give you a plaque for. "From this shore in 1973 local angler..." Slap it on the same sign post as the flood high water markers they put up.