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2 bull sharks swam up Mississippi River to St. Louis, study finds By Skyler Rivera 2 bull sharks swam up Mississippi River The researchers confirmed those two sightings but besides them, the sighting record in the United States was littered with incomplete reports. Two bull sharks, which are native to the Gulf of Mexico, made their way up to St. Louis by swimming up the Mississippi River separately in 1937 and 1995, a recent study confirmed. In the study, published in the Marine and Fishery Sci...

Two Bull Sharks Swam Up the Mississippi River All the Way to St. Louis The sharks, which are native to the Gulf of Mexico, made their way hundreds of miles upstream. By 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 Mississippi River, according to a team of researchers who looked at the shark’s fossil record and reported sightings over the years. Advertisement The research duo—Ryan Shell, a paleontologist...

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 than 1,160 river miles from the Gulf of Mexico where they are normally found — according to paleontologist Dr. Ryan Shell and WVU Potomac State College librarian Nick Gardner. According to the two, bull sharks have been caught in the area at least twice: once in 1937 and again in 1995. They...