What does a shark do?

To preview Sunday’s start of Discovery Channel’s wildly popular annual marathon of toothy TV, we asked Shark Week filmmaker, Jeff Kurr, who has helped helm Shark Week every year since 1991 and produced more than 30 shark documentaries, to answer some of our biggest questions about the fascinating sea predators. read more

The eating habits of sharks are very different if you take into account the number of species that exist. The truth is that most sharks are carnivorous and efficient predators, although some others feed on plankton. It depends on the type of shark as various species have different feeding habits. read more

Sharks are found in all seas and are common to depths of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). They generally do not live in freshwater although there are a few known exceptions, such as the bull shark and the river shark, which can survive and be found in both seawater and freshwater. read more