This Octopus’s Other Car Is a Shark
Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight ...
Octopus spotted riding on top of world's fastest shark
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.
Shark’s ‘mystery hat’ turns out to be a giant octopus
“We could see these tentacles moving,” she added in a March 20 interview with The New York Times.
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Rare "Sharktopus" Sighting As Octopus Hitches Ride On Fastest Shark In The World
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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Octopus turns world’s fastest shark into underwater taxi in a bizarre encounter
During a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island, scientists from the University of Auckland captured ...
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Watch an Octopus Hitch a Ride on a Shark—an Unusual Duo Dubbed the ‘Sharktopus’
Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior ...
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High-throughput sequencing retrieves viral sequences from diverse environments, but these sequences can be difficult to classify. The here developed VITAP is a taxonomic assignment pipeline for ...