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Bull sharks have been found up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois, and one was found 2,500 miles up the Amazon. Lake Nicaragua is full of bull sharks, known locally as Nicaragua sharks. The Zambezi River in Africa is home to many bull sharks, which are called Zambezi sharks there. After Hurricane Katrina, large numbers of bull sharks were reportedly seen swimming in Lake Pontchartrain. Bull shark moms tend to give birth in coastal lagoons, river mouths, and other estuaries.
There are more than 350 different kinds of sharks, such as the great white and whale sharks. Fossils show that sharks have been around for 420 million years, since the early Silurian. Most sharks are predators, meaning they hunt and eat fish, marine mammals, and other sea creatures. However, the largest shark eats krill, like whales. This is the whale shark, the largest fish in the world.