London: A rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland, shows a Maori octopus riding on top of a mako shark, Fox ...

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which ...

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 ...

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The sighting “highlights the importance of modern, cost-effective technologies to survey the deep sea and locate these lost sharks before they vanish.” ...

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The sighting occurred back in December 2023 as the University of Auckland’s research team was on the lookout for feeding ...

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The research team said the octopus was likely in for “quite the experience” since short-fin mako sharks are the world’s ...

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.