Sand dollars look way different in their lives beneath the waves. Their skeletons are prized by beachcombers, but sand dollars look way different in their lives beneath the waves. Covered in ...

The sand dollar is an unlikely architectural muse. It is hard, often misshapen, and relatively flat, all of which makes it just about the last thing you’d model a building after. Yet designers ...

Naturalist Katie Morrison, Director of Education at Coastal Expeditions, grew up in the Lowcountry and recalls the myth about breaking open a sand dollar to release the “doves,” five small ...

A great option for those who don't want to work up a sweat on the trails but want to experience Big Sur's beauty from outside the car is Sand Dollar Beach. Located about 7 miles south of Limekiln ...

Many animals have cunning ways of hiding from predators. But the larva of the sand dollar takes that to an extreme – it avoids being spotted by splitting itself into two identical clones.

Have you ever scoured the beach hunting for that perfect sand dollar to take home as a souvenir? Or perhaps plucked one of them out of the water? It could've been alive. Many beachgoers don't ...