An octopus that hitched a ride on the back of a shark off the coast of New Zealand has left marine researchers completely baffled. The incident was recorded in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island ...

But researchers aren't sure whether the octopus intended to ride on a shark's head. The shortfin mako is a large shark with big black button eyes and is extremely fast. Photo: Shutterstock Like ...

A research team from the University of Auckland was out studying feeding frenzies when they came across something far more remarkable: an octopus taking a ride on a shark’s back. The shark was ...

They then realized the odd blob was a coiled octopus hitching a ride on the shark. The university nicknamed the peculiar pairing the “Sharktopus.” ...

The octopus-shark duo surprised both scientists ... But there are also cockroaches that ride ants, copepods that ride jellyfish, fairy shrimp that ride trout, water fleas that ride wild boar ...

World's Fastest Shark Gives Octopus a Ride on Its Back Off New Zealand Coast, Stunning Scientists "To find out why they are so charismatic, vulnerable, and sexy, let's look at the octopus through ...

An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video captured in December 2023 and released in March 2025, the two species were in peaceful ...

Amazon Prime Video's "Octopus!" is a two-part documentary special narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, premiering May 8 ...

It shows an octopus hitching a ride on a shark, somewhere in New Zealand. And it also has researchers perplexed. Check it out below. Marine ecologist Rochelle Constantine explained the sighting ...

An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video captured in December 2023 and released in March 2025, the two species were in peaceful ...