A mako shark lunges from the water as experts try to get bite impressions from the predator. (Image credit: Discovery Channel) A final test involved getting tissue samples from another 12-foot mako.

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 ...

Fishermen on the Queen Mary party boat out of Manasquan Inlet got a surprise visit from a mako shark that stole one of their ...

Not mako shark large, though. Also known as the blue pointer or bonito shark, the shortfin mako can be up to four meters long and 570 kilograms. They are also the world's fastest shark, hitting ...

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland. Researchers at the institution dubbed the underwater friendship ...

Great white sharks swim by Jersey Shore; meet the man who pioneered tagging them here Dozens of NJ fishermen face penalties for not reporting bluefin tuna landings Mako shark steals sea bass off ...

Great white sharks swim by Jersey Shore; meet the man who pioneered tagging them here Dozens of NJ fishermen face penalties for not reporting bluefin tuna landings Mako shark steals sea bass off ...

Hitchhiking animals are more common than you think. ... But when Rochelle Constantine saw a nine-foot-long mako shark jet past her research vessel in the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand with a huge, ...

When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine, a marine ecologist at the University of Auckland, was concerned.The animal had a curious orangey-brown ...

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which they have dubbed "sharktopus." Forget "sharknado" — this footage ...

Great white sharks swim by Jersey Shore; meet the man who pioneered tagging them here Dozens of NJ fishermen face penalties for not reporting bluefin tuna landings Mako shark steals sea bass off ...