Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark ...

"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video ...

If you’re going to hitch a ride in the ocean, you might as well get one on the fastest-swimming shark. That’s what one octopus must have been thinking a while back. Researchers discovered an octopus ...

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 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, captured in ...