Octopuses could ‘take over the world and build underwater cities’ one day

Imagine something along these lines (Picture: Getty Images)

Professor Tim Coulson could never imagine his dog inheriting the Earth, building a city of kennels with bones as currency.

But he could easily imagine octopuses squirming on land wearing breathing gear, rifle in hand (tentacle?) to hunt deer and sheep.

As much as this sounds like a cheesy sci-fi movie, this is what the University of Oxford biologist has suggested could be in Earth’s future.

But on one condition – humanity is extinct.