Evidence for the cephalopod hypothesis. Sentient octopusers would have had gone through large numbers of shoes
Or gloves. Depends on how you look at it.
If an ancient octopus wanted to wear some rubber-like workwear to do his dirty civilization-building, would he wear a big glove with 8 'fingers', or would he wear a flexible thimble on each tentacle?
I think it would be individual sucker covers.
God what a pain in the ass to put them all on and take them all off, no wonder they didn't make it
Exactly, found directly beneath the shoe event horizon.