An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland. Researchers at the institution dubbed the underwater friendship ...

Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior ...

Yet, for at least ten minutes on that December day in 2023, these two animals shared a ride. “The shark seemed quite happy, and the octopus seemed quite happy,” Constantine told The New York ...

The sighting was not that of some mish-mashed genetic oddity but rather a normal octopus hitching a ride on the back of a very real shark. Researchers from the University of Auckland spotted the ...

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which they have dubbed “sharktopus.” The team was off the Northern coast ...

A research team from the University of Auckland was out studying feeding frenzies when they came across something far more ...

Scientists were amazed to spot a Maori octopus hitchhiking on the back of a speedy shortfin mako shark, an unusual sight captured in New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf. It’s not every day you see an ...