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

The rare sighting of an octopus riding on top of a shark was shared by scientists with the University of Auckland after it ...

Is this a new alliance between marine species? According to images published by the University of Auckland in New Zealand, ...

Researchers off the coast of New Zealand caught a rare sight on camera - an octopus hitching a ride on the back of an ...

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland.

If you Google 'are octopuses aliens?' the Google AI snipped says right at the top 'no, octopuses are not aliens' and you'd think that would settle it but ...

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

T he intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose ...

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

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

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch species.

As the video went viral, social media users reacted in astonishment with many calling the octopus smart for utilising the ...