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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An octopus has been spotted catching a ride from an unlikely marine friend: a superfast shark. Researchers captured a video ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Octopus Spotted Riding a Shark Like It's NBD in Waters Off Coast of New Zealand The intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating ...

A research team in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, caught a glimpse of something I bet they had never thought they would ever see: an octopus hitching a ride on top of a mako shark. The ...

Researchers caught a glimpse at what they dubbed a "sharktopus" -- a bizarre sighting of the tentacled creature clinging to the back of a shark. Youtube/University of Auckland See more of our coverage ...

"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video ...

Carl Sorenson managed to capture a massive bluntnose sixgill shark, getting close enough for it to bounce off his camera gear ...

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 ...

(CNN) - Amazing newly released video shows a most unlikely traveling duo in New Zealand. It was an octopus riding on a shark’s head. The University of Auckland released a video on social media of an ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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” ...