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

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

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

On March 5, a video shared on YouTube by University of Auckland showed a ‘sharktopus’ in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island.

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It shows an octopus hitching a ride on a shark, somewhere in New Zealand. And it also has researchers perplexed. Check it out ...

A rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of ...

Drone video captured what was a curious sight for scientists, who saw an octopus clinging onto the head of a short-fin mako ...

Researchers discovered an octopus catching a ride on a shortfin Mako shark off the shores of New Zealand, according to ...

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

This sharktopus (a.k.a. a short-fin mako shark giving an octopus a ride on its back) in the Hauraki Gulf was a mysterious ...