Researchers off the coast of New Zealand caught a rare sight on camera - an octopus hitching a ride on the back of an ...

Somehow, a large orange octopus has been riding a mako shark off the coast of New Zealand. Researchers are mystified.

Drone video captured what was a curious sight for scientists, who saw an octopus clinging onto the head of a short-fin mako shark off the coast of New Zealand.

A research team from the University of Auckland was out studying feeding frenzies when they came across something far more ...

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

which turned out to be a short-fin mako shark. But a closer look at the beast had them in disbelief. "[W]hat was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?" asked Rochelle Constantine ...

“A shark giving an octopus a ride is one of ... octopus are mostly on the seabed while short-fin mako sharks don’t favor the deep. The encounter is a reminder of the wonders of the ocean.” ...

If you’re going to hitch a ride in the ocean, you might as well get one on the fastest-swimming shark. That’s what one octopus must have been thinking a while back. Researchers discovered an ...

"A large metallic grey dorsal fin signalled a big shark, a short-fin mako," Constantine wrote in the piece published March 11. "But wait, what was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?