a short-fin mako," but this shark had a strange, orange patch on its head, Constantine writes in a statement. Was it "a buoy? An injury?" researchers wondered. They sent up a drone, which revealed ...

“What was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury ... they were taken aback by this shark’s mystery “hat.” The team quickly launched a drone from the vessel and lowered ...

which turned out to be a short-fin mako shark. But a closer look at the beast had them in disbelief. "[W]hat was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?" asked Rochelle Constantine ...

The bizarre interaction, captured in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf, shows the octopus riding on the shark’s head. (See footage below.) “A shark giving an octopus a ride is one of the strangest ...