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

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

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

Is this a new alliance between marine species? According to images published by the University of Auckland in New Zealand, ...

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

Marine scientists from the University of Auckland witnessed an extraordinary event off the coast of New Zealand. They ...

“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 ...

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

As the video went viral, social media users reacted in astonishment with many calling the octopus smart for utilising the ...

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