A recent sighting in New Zealand showed that the sea is full of surprises. While on a research trip, marine scientists observed an octopus attached to the head of a shortfin mako shark.

A video shows a Maori octopus hitchhiking on a shortfin mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf near New Zealand's North Island.

Carla Mascarenhas is the NSW correspondent covering breaking news, state politics and investigations. She is based in Sydney.

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

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight ...

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

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

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.

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which ...

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.

Researchers at University of Auckland documented the real-life sharktopus during a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki ...

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 ...