An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland. Researchers at the institution dubbed the underwater friendship ...

when they spotted a large short-fin mako shark just underwater. The patch of orange on top of its head confused them. Marine scientist Rochelle Constantine initially thought they were seeing a ...

Nature unveiled another mystery when an octopus was caught cruising through the waters of New Zealand — by hitching a ride on ...

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 ...

Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior ...

It got me.” It wasn’t a bite, but rather a scrape. Beard says shark’s skin is super slick from head to fin, but when it goes in the other direction it’s like sandpaper lined with razors.