Those who surprised a ‘Sharktopus’ leaves were stunned and stunned

Marine biologist Rochelle Constantine and his research team encountered something completely unexpected during a study on the northern coast of New Zealand – a landscape that fully impressed them.

In December 2023, while observing a shorts Mako shark during the waters, something strange took his eyes.

“It had a really big orange-brown form in the head,” Constantine recently shared the discovery in a blog postexplained Quite The host Nile Koksal.

“We like it, ‘Oh, this is a kind of fishing, or maybe there’s an injury, injuries often have unusual colors.'”

To reach the bottom of this, the team broke the ship closer to the fish, placed a drone for air shots and hit a goopro in the water to look closer.

What they are waiting for what they expected: Mysterious Blob was actually a Maori octopus that sticks to the head of the shark.

“It has worked to keep himself in very much,” he said, Professor of Biological Sciences at Auckland University Constantine. “You can see a tentacle … Every time and then everyone.”

It didn’t take long for a name to give a name of the team.

“It was called almost immediately in the water,” said Constantine. “Sharktopus.”

A very difficult couple

Maori Octopus, the largest octopus in the southern hemisphere, lives in depth and fed the bottom of the sea, Constantine says.

In the meantime, the Mako shark is usually diving in large water, large depths, but rarely approaches the ocean layer.

“The biggest mystery they found in each other,” said Constantine. “They have many different worlds.”

Constantine says scientists can speculate only about what they bring them together.

“I think that as the octopus moves away from the mouth of the Mako shark, perhaps definitely friends,” he said.

Victoria Maritime Biologist Verena Tunnicliffe University, who did not participate in the expedition, said Octopus was probably torn in the shark and hidden on his back.

“It’s a very bright animal – where is the safest place? (I) hopes that it can slide this without warning.”

“I can’t imagine that you think it will be a joyry but you never know.”

Keep a mystery

Despite how a mystery of the Sharkolus, the match caused a wide range of interest in the world.

Clock | Shows dry images from Auckland University Sharktopus From above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cylbbdy

And Constantine focuses on all talking and focusing on “Sharktopus”.

“I Really talk about people all over the world and all these languages, ‘Well, what is it? Why do they find each other? What is going on? “”

An unexpected encounter for Constantine, serves to remind you how much we have to learn about the ocean and incredible creatures, while Accessible to manage us better.

“The lives of these animals are more than how we accept them.”

“I think it’s all about the ocean. Indeed, I think people are not only how much we do not know, how cool the ocean is and how important it is for us.”