Scientists capture a rare sighting of the octopus riding shark in the camera

What happens when an octopus jumps? A shark To take a walk through the city?

A “Sharktopus”, of course.

The rare sighting, captured in a video off the coast of New Zealand And shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland, shows a Maori octopus that leads on a Mako shark, which is the fastest in the world with the ability to swim up to 46 mph.

The University said that the December 2023 encounter “was one of the strangest things than marine scientists at the University of Auckland had ever seen. It was a mysterious view in fact … the octopus is mainly in the seabed, while Mako Short Shats do not (favor) the deep.”

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A rare sighting captured on the New Zealand coast and shared by scientists affiliated with the University of Auckland shows a Maori octopus that travels on top of a Mako shark, which is the fastest in the world with the ability to swim up to 46 mph. (University of Auckland)

University researchers had been looking for Shark food frenzies In the Gulf of Hauraki, near Kawau Island, when a Mako shark was discovered with an “orange patch” in the head.

The researchers launched a drone and put a GoPro camera in the water and “saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched on the shark’s head, clinging to their tentacles,” wrote the professor at the University of Auckland, Rochelle Constantine. A piece for university last week.

The researchers launched a drone and put a GoPro camera in the water and “saw something unforgettable: an octopus perched on the shark’s head, clinging to their tentacles,” wrote the professor of the University of Auckland, Rochelle Constantine, in a piece for the university last week. (University of Auckland)

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Constantine added that the researchers continued after 10 minutes, so they were not sure of what happened with the “Sharktopus” below, but the “octopus may have had the experience of all experience, since the fastest shark species in the world can reach (30 mph)”.

“At first, I thought, ‘Is it a buoy?'” Constantine told New York Times this week. “‘Are you tangled up as a fishing team or do you have a great bite?'”

The researchers said the octopus was in “all the experience” with the fastest shark in the world. (University of Auckland)

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She pointed out: “You can see that a good amount of real estate is needed on the head of the shark”, noting that none of the animals seemed upset by the encounter.

“The shark seemed quite happy, and the octopus seemed quite happy. It was a very quiet scene,” he said.