The mako shark landed on a Churchys Charters NZ fishing boat in the waters near Whitianga, New Zealand Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

"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?

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 ...

23, when he became entangled in a line that had been hooked onto a large mako shark. NSW Police Superintendent Joe McNulty ...

There’s this Instagram account out there. It gained popularity a little while back, but seems to have gone dormant since. What was it? @InterspeciesFriendship, and it showed, as you may have ...