‘Unusual sea creature’ identified as ‘decorated’ crab

PERTH, Australia, July 22 (UPI) — A fisherman who posted video of an “unusual creature” found in his craypot off Australia said the animal was revealed to have a somewhat surprising identity.

Rodney Harris posted a video to YouTube showing the small orange creature he found in his craypot off the coast of Perth.

Harris identified the animal in the video’s description as “a seaweed type creature that rolls and crawls.”

However, he later made a definitive identification of the creature — it was a crab “that decorates itself with seaweed.”