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 ...

Researchers off the coast of New Zealand caught a rare sight on camera - an octopus hitching a ride on the back of an ...

Is this a new alliance between marine species? According to images published by the University of Auckland in New Zealand, ...

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

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

An unexpected marine phenomenon was observed in New Zealand waters: an octopus riding a shark. This unusual scene, captured by researchers, raises questions about interactions between ...

It was an octopus riding on a shark’s head. The University of Auckland released a video on social media of an odd encounter, ...

What they discovered was far from what they expected: the mysterious blob was actually a Maori octopus clinging to the shark's head. "It was definitely working to keep itself very contained on top ...

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 ...