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

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

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland.

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

A research team from the University of Auckland was out studying feeding frenzies when they came across something far more ...

Somehow, a large orange octopus has been riding a mako shark off the coast of New Zealand. Researchers are mystified.

“At first, I was like: ‘Is it a buoy?’” marine scientist Rochelle Constantine told the New York Times. “‘Is it entangled in fishing gear or had a big bite?’” The phenomenon was ...

(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 ...

One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface. The dorsal fin slicing through the Hauraki Gulf belonged to a ...

But wait, what was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?" Rochelle Constantine, a marine biology professor at the University of Auckland who was on the research trip, wrote in a statement.

But it was an article written by biologist professor and participating researcher Rochelle Constantine, published by the university last week, that piqued public interest. "A large metallic grey ...