The rig shark, a small species that inhabits the coastal waters of New Zealand, typically lives near the seafloor and plays a key role in the region’s commercial fishing industry. Unlike most fish ...

Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound ...

Nature unveiled another mystery when an octopus was caught cruising through the waters of New Zealand — by hitching a ride on ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch species.

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.