In an astonishing display of marine behavior, rare footage captured off the coast of New Zealand in 2023 reveals an unexpected friendship between a Maori octopus and a mako shark. This remarkable ...

The animals were rescued by the Wild Animals Rescue Centre, run by Natalia Popova, a Ukrainian woman who has saved hundreds of abandoned pets and zoo animals.View on euronews ...

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

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

A strange marine encounter has left scientists baffled after they spotted a real-life 'sharktopus'. The sighting off the coast of Kawau Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf saw a Maori octopus hitch a ...

Maori octopuses are the largest octopuses in the Southern Hemisphere, reaching about 1 meter (3.28 feet) in length. Shortfin mako sharks are known for being one of the fastest fish in the world, with ...

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

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 ...

The rare sighting, captured on video off the coast of New Zealand and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of ...

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

Two of the three finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award are from Northland. Completing the trio of ...