Let’s get a couple of things out of the way right up front. The octopus is a solitary mollusk, so much so that there is no collective noun to describe a group of them. That means when a headline refers to a “horde” of them, it can’t be a good thing. Also, despite the fact that they have eight legs, they can’t use them to stride across the ground, so a story that says they “walked” out of the ocean is probably just using this as an opening to soften the news that Armageddon has arrived. Has it?
“They were coming out of the water and crawling up the beach. We don’t quite know what’s causing it. Perhaps it’s because the sea has been quite rough...
