Octopus Hitched a Ride on a Shark's Back—and Scientists Got It on Video

Octopus Hitched a Ride on a Shark's Back—and Scientists Got It on Video

A research team in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, caught a glimpse of something I bet they had never thought they would ever see: an octopus hitching a ride on top of a mako shark. The so-called “sharktopus” makes no sense to researchers and may never since it was only briefly observed. Could the researchers have been witnessing a Disney-like mismatched pair of animals going on an adventure? Could it be one of those animal friendsh…

Australia.– A research team at Auckland University was studying food frenzies when it found something much more extraordinary: an octopus mounted on the back of a shark. Look: The Octopus entry caught a ball above a shark was first published in Remolacha - News Dominican Republic.