An octopus rides on the back of a fast mako shark off the coast of New Zealand; a scientific video reveals an unusual ...

The rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland, shows a Maori octopus riding on top of a mako shark ...

What they discovered was far from what they expected: the mysterious blob was actually a Maori octopus clinging to the shark's head. "It was definitely working to keep itself very contained on top ...

That wasn’t the case for this octopus. In 2023, scientists spotted an eight-armed cephalopod riding on a 10-foot mako shark—and their video of the bizarre journey is now available to view.

More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget sci-fi films of the 2010s, the "sharktopus" has been spotted in real life - well, kind of. The sighting was not that of some mish ...

They spotted the tell-tale fin of a shortfin ... adding that “The octopus may have been in for quite the experience since the world’s fastest shark species can reach 50kph.” ...

It was an octopus riding on a shark’s head. The University of Auckland released a video on social media of an odd encounter, which was actually captured in late 2023, when a research team was ...