Forget “sharknado” — this footage shows a new feat of nature. Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which they have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark ...

Rare footage captured by scientists in New Zealand in 2023 shows an octopus riding on the back of a shark. In a recently released study, scientists say they still aren’t sure how the deep sea-dwelling ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video left scientists baffled when it was first spotted in New Zealand waters in 2023. More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget ...

(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 ...

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” ...

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 ...