Researchers recently discovered an octopus catching a ride on a shortfin Mako shark off the shores of New Zealand, according ...

The rare sighting of an octopus riding on top of a shark was shared by scientists with the University of Auckland after it ...

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland.

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

“We could see these tentacles moving,” she added in a March 20 interview with The New York Times.

This sharktopus (a.k.a. a short-fin mako shark giving an octopus a ride on its back) in the Hauraki Gulf was a mysterious find for University of Auckland marine scientist Professor Rochelle ...

T he intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose ...

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch species.

As the recreational fishery chips away at shark populations outside the boundaries of scientists’ data books — and as a new ...

"We launched the drone, put the GoPro in the water, and saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched atop the shark’s head ...

Researchers at University of Auckland documented the real-life sharktopus during a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki ...