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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers spotted an orange blob near a shark's head. It turned out to be an octopus along for a ride. Wednesday Davis / University of Auckland In December 2023, marine ecologist Rochelle ...

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 ...

The octopus wasn’t clinging to the shark “like on a wayward banana boat ride,” Dr. Constantine said. “You could see, every now and then, this little tentacle gets pulled in.” Although ...