An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland.
The octopus in question was no lightweight. It was a Māori octopus, the largest octopus species in the Southern Hemisphere.
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.