An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video captured in December 2023 and released in March 2025, the two species were in peaceful ...

Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark. They sent up their drone and captured a delightful if mystifying ...

Researchers spotted an orange blob near a shark's head. It turned out to be an octopus along for a ride. Wednesday Davis / University of Auckland In December 2023, marine ecologist Rochelle ...

A shortfin mako shark, the fastest-swimming shark in the world, was caught on camera with an octopus catching a ride on its back off the coast of New Zealand. When you purchase through links on our ...

Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz is known for his unconventional musical projects, but his latest feat takes things to a whole new level. He spent six months investigating whether an octopus — a highly ...

Swedish musician Mattias Krantz successfully trained his pet octopus named Takoyaki to play piano after six months of work. Krantz, a YouTuber who creates content about modified musical instruments, ...

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, which is the ...

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be providing taxi service for an octopus. The bizarre interaction, captured in ...

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms. By Melissa Hobson When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf ...

The intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose cognition works very differently from mammals like us. An octopus has “mini-brains” ...

Coconut octopuses are vulnerable to blacktip sharks, who use smell to find prey. With the help of an unlikely ally, this octopus is able to hide from hungry sharks. - [Narrator] Blacktip sharks hunt ...