bull shark

A large heavy-bodied shark (Carcharhinus leucas) of shallow coastal waters, estuaries, and rivers, known for its aggressive behavior.

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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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Shane McConnell, 14, from Edinburgh, was on holiday with his family when he fell into the water, where a bull shark sunk its teeth into his foot last April.

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Bull shark Known to eat everything they see, bull sharks favour shallow coastal waters - where humans like to swim - and even venture through freshwater and up river estuaries.

The deadliest

Of nearly 500 different shark species, only three account for most of the unprovoked attacks on humans -- the great white, the tiger shark and the bull shark.

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Maen nhw'n ymweld a pharc coala, yn snorclo ym mor gloyw'r Great Barrier Reef ac yn pysgota am "Bull Shark" yn Brisbane.