You can find them in most Lowcountry gift shops — those sun-bleached, disc-like “shells” of sand dollars, popular as decorations and souvenirs. Each cookie-shaped, calcium carbonate skeleton once ...

There's much folklore surrounding the small, fragile creatures known as sand dollars, but what is their life like before they wash up on the shore? Jeff Clements, an aquatic biologist with Fisheries ...

New work on echinoids -- marine animals like sea urchins and sand dollars -- gives scientists a reason to rethink a classical pattern of evolution. Fossil-based studies have traditionally indicated ...

There’s a disappearing island off North Carolina’s coast only accessible by boat where you can find buried treasure. Sand Dollar Island, which is really just a large sand bar most accessible at low ...

Sand dollars are flattened, disc-shaped sea urchins that live in high-energy coastal environments across the globe. Why they evolved this atypical morphology remains a mystery. This project aims to ...

Sand dollar skeletons and fossils turn Ocean Beach into a living lab—perfect for a family day trip. Sand dollar skeletons, or “tests,” wash up in great numbers on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.

The Oregon Coast offers beachgoers activities like hunting for glass floats, sightseeing, sand raking and collecting sand dollars. While finding a whole sand dollar can be rare, there is a rocky beach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sand dollars look much different when they're alive in the water compared to when they're dried out in the sand. (Submitted by ...