Aerial video captures octopus hitching a ride on a shark
An octopus taking a ride on a shark’s back in New Zealand surprised a research team from the University of Auckland.
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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 ...
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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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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Rare ‘Sharktopus’ – an octopus riding a shark – sighting caught on camera shared by scientists
The rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland, shows a Maori octopus riding on top of a mako shark ...
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‘Marine mystery’ as mako shark swims past researchers with octopus on head
Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be providing taxi service for an octopus. The bizarre interaction ...