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 shortfin mako ...

The Americas explores the life and death of the giant Pacific octopus. If you know where and how to look, you can find the ...

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

A shortfin mako shark, the fastest-swimming shark in the world, was caught on camera with an octopus catching a ride on its ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than any other octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen that was 30 feet across and weighed more than 600 pounds. Averages are ...

Heading to the beach this summer? Get involved in a little community science and help protect the Dumbo octopus by taking part in events such as the Big Microplastics Survey. Want to dive deeper into ...

Octopus Rides On A Shark Like A Jockey In Amazing Scenes Captured In New Zealand. An octopus has been found hitching a ride on a shark in an encounter that has left scientists flabbergasted.

Two miles beneath the ocean surface, at the base of a deep-sea seamount they uncovered the largest known gathering of octopus in the world – 20,000 pearl octopus breeding in warm hydrothermal ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples ... That's one of the largest size differences between males and females—called sexual size dimorphism—in the animal ...

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.