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 ... dorsal fin signalled a big shark, a short-fin mako ...

Scientists in New Zealand have released footage of an octopus appearing to ride the back of a shortfin mako shark. Researchers at University of Auckland documented the real-life sharktopus during ...

A strange marine encounter has left scientists baffled after they spotted a real-life 'sharktopus ... Maori octopus hitch a ride on a shortfin mako shark, clinging to the predator's head like ...

Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark ... arms to hold on for dear life. The Gulf where they recorded ...

By Melissa Hobson When she spotted the mako ... real estate on the shark’s head,” Dr. Constantine said of the encounter, which the researchers recorded during a field expedition to study ...

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 ... a short-fin mako," Constantine wrote in ...