A walker was left baffled after stumbling across a bizarre sea creature that resembled ' pink spaghetti '.
The strange organism was 'squishy and soft', and 'burrowed into the sand' when the walker disturbed it, as the Daily Star reports.
They shared a picture of the sea creature, which was found in Naples, Florida, on social media in an attempt to find out what it was.
Soon they were inundated with comments from other Reddit users, as one said that the creature is a sea hare, which is a mollusc with a soft internal shell made of protein.
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Sharing the picture anonymously, the walker said: "Anyone know what this is? I found him today on the beach in Naples, FL! He started burrowing into the sand as well."
One person responded, saying that the creature is a sea hare, which is a mollusc with a soft internal shell made of protein.
Revealing that they touched the animal, the user wrote: "It was just a lil squishy and soft!"
The sea hare is actually a marine snail, found in shallow water and occasionally in rockpools on the low shore.
They feed on seaweed and it is thought that this is what gives each sea hare its colour. For example, green sea hares like eating green seaweeds like sea lettuce whilst the reddish-maroon sea hares usually eat red seaweeds.
Sea hares have an internal shell, which is around four centimetres long and transparent.
Like sea slugs, the sea hare is a hermaphrodite and they sometimes mate in chains, with an individual acting as both male and female.
They lay eggs in long pink threads, which are deposited on seaweed and "look a bit like pink spaghetti," according to Wildlifetrusts.org.
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Meanwhile, a fisherman landed a strange catch when he was fishing deep at sea and after sharing a picture of it online his followers were freaked out - as some thought it was a 'baby dragon'.
Roman Fedortsov has found some strange things before, including a mushroom-like orange creature, an aggressive-looking angler fish, and another catch that resembled a doughnut.
And now he's shared his latest find, a small fish that's longer than it is wide, and which his followers on social media describe as looking like a 'baby dragon'.
He pulled it from the water when he was fishing in the Norwegian Sea, and after sharing an image of his catch online his followers have been left terrified.
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