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.

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

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

(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 ...