Somehow, a large orange octopus has been riding a mako shark off the coast of New Zealand. Researchers are mystified.

Researchers off the coast of New Zealand caught a rare sight on camera - an octopus hitching a ride on the back of an ...

The octopus in question was no lightweight. It was a Māori octopus, the largest octopus species in the Southern Hemisphere.

The rare sighting of an octopus riding on top of a shark was shared by scientists with the University of Auckland after it ...

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

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be ...

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

“We could see these tentacles moving,” she added in a March 20 interview with The New York Times.

Researchers at University of Auckland documented the real-life sharktopus during a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki ...

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight ...

It was an octopus riding on a shark’s head. The University of Auckland released a video on social media of an odd encounter, ...

An octopus was filmed hitching a ride on the back of a mako shark in the waters off New Zealand, and researchers are a little ...