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

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.

To get the ball rolling, the 2016-model Duke (later nicknamed the Orange Shark) was dismantled and all its stock bodywork got taken out of the equation. Next up, the Mandrill squad came up with a ...

"One of the best things about being a marine scientist is that you never know what you might see next in the sea," writes ...

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

Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior ...

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

The encounter took place in the Hauraki Gulf, where a University of Auckland research team was analyzing ocean behavior in search of feeding frenzies. Initially bewildered by what appeared to be an ...

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

A whale watching tour was surprised with what organizers called a “once-in-a-lifetime” shark sighting on Friday afternoon off the coast of Newport Beach. According to Davey’s Locker Whale ...

A whale watching tour was surprised with what organizers called a “once-in-a-lifetime” shark sighting on Friday afternoon off the coast of Newport Beach. According to Davey’s Locker Whale ...