(CNN) – Amazing newly released video shows a most unlikely traveling duo in New Zealand.
It was an octopus riding on a shark’s head.
The University of Auckland released a video on social media of an odd encounter, which was actually captured in late 2023, when a research team was monitoring feeding frenzies off New Zealand’s northeastern coast.
The team spotted an orange mass on a Mako shark’s head and sent in a pair of cameras for a closer look.
They then realized the odd blob was a coiled octopus hitching a ride on the shark.
The university nicknamed the peculiar pairing the “Sharktopus.”
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