Gird Your Loins: Octopuses Regularly Walk on Land In this video, an octopus acts like it owns the place. What place? Every place. Water, land. What’s next? Air. Flying octopuses. It’s 2012, people. Julia Finn, a senior curator of marine invertebrates at the Museum Victoria in Australia, says, “Crawling along out of water is not uncommon for species of octopus that live in the intertidal or near shore.” James Wood, a marine biologist, is familiar with the phenomenon. According to a blog post on Scientific American, however, he thinks we humans are less likely to see these things happening because most species of octopuses are nocturnal. That’s not very reassuring, James. via Humin Wat r u doin Humin srsly Stahp SEE MORE: • Kelsey Whyte Gives Reddit a Master Class on Photobombing • 10 ‘Sesame Street’ Performances That Don’t Get Nearly Enough Love Follow Us [r/videos]