Marine scientists from the University of Auckland witnessed an extraordinary event off the coast of New Zealand. They observed a common octopus riding ...

Octopus hitch-hikes a ride on a shark. A rare and amusing sight in the ocean has captured the internet’s attention—an octopus hitchhiking on an unlikely companion. A newly surfaced video shows a ...

The team was off the Northern coast of New Zealand in the Hauraki Gulf in 2023 when they spotted a shortfin mako shark with ... since the world’s fastest shark species can reach 50 kilometers ...

It is not uncommon to find a marine animal attached to another, but a Maori octopus on a Mako shark? That is a different and uncommon story indeed.

The ocean and the vast water bodies of the world remain largely unexplored ... In December 2023, researchers in the Hauraki Gulf, near New Zealand, captured an astonishing sight—an octopus clinging to ...

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 octopus catching a ride on a shortfin Mako shark ...

Gotta get me home to my baby’s side. Ride, ride, ride, hitchin’ a ride. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot ...

That was the case when a team from the University of Auckland in New Zealand noticed a 10-foot-long shortfin mako shark adorned with ... a GoPro camera into the water to get a closer look.

Marine researchers in New Zealand have documented an unprecedented interaction between a shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) and an octopus. During a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki ...

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