The octopus in question was no lightweight. It was a Māori octopus, the largest octopus species in the Southern Hemisphere.

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

Maori octopuses are the largest octopuses in the Southern Hemisphere, reaching about 1 meter (3.28 feet) in length. Shortfin mako sharks are known for being one of the fastest fish in the world, with ...

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It shows an octopus hitching a ride on a shark, somewhere in New Zealand. And it also has researchers perplexed. Check it out ...

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

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.

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

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

A shortfin mako shark, the fastest-swimming shark in the world, was caught on camera with an octopus catching a ride on its back off the coast of New Zealand.

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight ...