A couple have said they were “fascinated” to find a large washed-up crab on a north Wales beach.

Amy Carter, 46, and her partner Scott Southey, 49, were walking at Talybont, near Barmouth, Gwynedd, last Monday when they found the crustacean, understood to be a spiny spider crab.

“I was a bit nervous,” said Ms Carter. “Because it was extremely big. With his little hair-do of mussels that was stuck to him, it was very, very fascinating.”

Spiny spider crabs are a common species in the UK.