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Great White Sharks Spotted in Mississippi River?

A photograph purporting to show two great white sharks swimming in the Mississippi River depicts bull sharks, not great whites, and was taken in Costa Rica.

by Dan Evon, Published Oct. 25, 2016


Image courtesy of Wikipedia


Claim:
A photograph shows two great white sharks swimming in the Mississippi River.
Rating:
False

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On 26 October 2016, the web site React365 published a photograph purportedly supposedly showing two great white sharks in the Mississippi River near St. Louis. The same site later posted the same photograph again, this time claiming the pictured sharks had made "their way up the Mississippi River and in to the Illinois River somehow":

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By Dan Evon

Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes.


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