Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark. They sent up their drone and captured a delightful if mystifying ...

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 ...

Salmon hats on killer whales have been well documented. Even a parasitic species is creating zombie spiders. But in a first, a rare "sharktopus" sighting was filmed as an octopus hitched a ride on the ...

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 ...

One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface. The dorsal fin slicing through the Hauraki Gulf belonged to a shortfin mako ...

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 Forget “sharknado” — ...