An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video captured in December 2023 and released in March 2025, the two species were in peaceful ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Wednesday Davis An octopus has been spotted catching a ride from an unlikely marine ...

Shark Week is upon us and that means thrills, shrills, and a bloody water filled good time. The week long event ion Discovery Channel is celebrated by many and has even received some sweet and cool ...

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” ...

The depths of the ocean never cease to amaze, whether it's due to the discovery of a new animal, something unknown, or an ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video left scientists baffled when it was first spotted in New Zealand waters in 2023. More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget ...

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 ...

Two prehistoric creatures, thawed out after 10 million years of being frozen mid-combat, have surfaced off the coasts of California and Japan: Mega Shark (a really, really big shark) and Giant Octopus ...

It’s Shark Week, that dubious annual event devoted to those toothy predators of the deep. But if the Discovery Channel really wanted to focus on a scary-smart, adaptable, tricky sea creature, they’d ...