One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface.

During a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island, scientists from the University of Auckland captured footage of an octopus affixed to the dorsal region of ...

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

And that’s when they spotted the pair. “A large metallic grey dorsal fin signaled a big shark, a short-fin mako. But wait, what was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?

The tags they use—about the size of a Zippo lighter, mounted on the dorsal fin ... copepods cling to the fin of a shortfin mako. They feed on different parts of the shark’s body, eating ...

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

They noticed the dorsal fin of a large, short-fin mako shark with an orange patch on its head. This led the team to launch a drone to get a closer look at the animal. In doing so, the researchers ...

A shortfin mako shark, the fastest-swimming shark in the world, was caught on camera with an octopus catching a ride on its ...

A large shark was spotted thanks to its grey dorsal fin peeking out the water ... was likely in for "quite the experience" since short-fin mako sharks are the world's fastest shark species ...

"A large metallic grey dorsal fin signalled a big shark, a short-fin mako," Constantine wrote in the piece published March 11. "But wait, what was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?