bull shark

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bull shark - a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous

Carcharhinus leucas, cub shark

requiem shark - any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species

Carcharhinus, genus Carcharhinus - type genus of the Carcharhinidae

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Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus leucas
cub shark

genus Carcharhinus
requiem shark

A few bull sharks and dolphins were contaminated with PBDE concentrations as high as 4,200 ppb.

Sharks, dolphins store pollutants by Science News

Miss Daigle and a friend were on a boogie board 150 yards offshore when the eight-foot bull shark, a particularly aggressive species, attacked.

Surfers attempt rescue by Mass, Warren / The New American

However, none of the tagged bull sharks in the nearby Caloosahatchee River left before or during the storm.

Sharks' sixth sense by Vatalaro, Michael / BOAT/U.S. Magazine

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