More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget sci-fi films of the 2010s, the "sharktopus" has been spotted in real life - well, kind of. The sighting was not that of some mish ...

If you Google 'are octopuses aliens?' the Google AI snipped says right at the top 'no, octopuses are not aliens' and you'd think that would settle it but ...

The octopus in question was no lightweight. It was a Māori octopus, the largest octopus species in the Southern Hemisphere.

A research team from the University of Auckland was out studying feeding frenzies when they came across something far more remarkable: an octopus taking a ride on a shark’s back. The shark was ...

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

It was an octopus riding on a shark’s head. The University of Auckland released a video on social media of an odd encounter, which was actually captured in late 2023, when a research team was ...