Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose cognition ...

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 uncommon story indeed.

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"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video ...

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms. By Melissa Hobson When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf ...

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be providing taxi service for an octopus. The bizarre interaction, captured in ...

The intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose cognition works very differently from mammals like us. An octopus has “mini-brains” ...