Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which ...

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland.

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 odd ...

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 ...

One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface.

(See footage below.) “A shark giving an octopus a ride is one of the strangest things that University of Auckland marine scientist Professor Rochelle Constantine has seen,” the university ...

It’s not every day you see an octopus hitching a ride on a shark, but one resourceful cephalopod seemed to do just that. In a rare and remarkable sight, a Maori octopus was spotted clinging to the ...

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 ...