"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride.

Researchers caught a glimpse at what they dubbed a "sharktopus" -- a bizarre sighting of the tentacled creature clinging to the back of a shark. Youtube/University of Auckland Forget “sharknado ...

While it's thought that relationships between the octopus and the shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus (the fastest shark in the world ... for a little oceanic ride, reports the media outlet ...

Its shortfin mako companion is known for leaping high out of the water and for being the world’s fastest shark—which means it might have offered a wild ride. “The octopus may have been in ...

Credit: Wednesday Davis An octopus has been spotted catching a ride from an unlikely marine friend: a superfast shark. Researchers captured a video showing the orange-hued octopus clinging to the ...

But researchers aren't sure whether the octopus intended to ride on a shark's head ... They are also the world's fastest shark, hitting speeds of up to 50kph. The Maori octopus would have to ...

The sighting was not that of some mish-mashed genetic oddity but rather a normal octopus hitching a ride on the back of a very real shark. Researchers from the University of Auckland spotted the ...

(See footage below.) “A shark giving an octopus a ride is one of the strangest things that University of Auckland marine scientist Professor Rochelle Constantine has seen,” the university ...

Scientists were amazed to spot a Maori octopus hitchhiking on the back of a speedy shortfin mako shark, an unusual sight captured in New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf. It’s not every day you see an ...

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 ... that such extraordinary moments keep happening." Media Drum ...

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 ...