The rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland, shows a Maori octopus riding on top of a mako shark, which is the ...

An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video captured in December 2023 and released in March 2025, the two species were in peaceful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An octopus has been spotted catching a ride from an unlikely marine friend: a superfast shark. Researchers captured a video ...

A research team in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, caught a glimpse of something I bet they had never thought they would ever see: an octopus hitching a ride on top of a mako shark. The ...

Researchers caught a glimpse at what they dubbed a "sharktopus" -- a bizarre sighting of the tentacled creature clinging to the back of a shark. Youtube/University of Auckland See more of our coverage ...

One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface. The dorsal fin slicing through the Hauraki Gulf belonged to a shortfin mako ...

The intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose cognition works very differently from mammals like us. An octopus has “mini-brains” ...

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms. By Melissa Hobson When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf ...

A research team from the University of Auckland was out studying feeding frenzies when they came across something far more remarkable: an octopus taking a ride on a shark’s back. The shark was ...

Deep-sea animals have been getting a lot of attention lately because every new video or photo from the ocean’s deepest layers shows creatures that look completely different from anything we see on ...

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"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video ...