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 ...

The bright white sand dollars prized by Outer Banks beachcombers and coveted by craft makers were once masters of their sea-bottom habitat. The elements that make a sand dollar so attractive served ...

If you've been on a beach, you probably know what a sand dollar looks like. It's a white, round disk with some beautiful markings on top. Maybe, if you shake it, it rattles a bit. Right? Wrong. What ...

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 realize ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Coast offers beachgoers activities like hunting for glass floats, sightseeing, sand raking and collecting sand dollars.

“The outside of their shell is covered with millions of tiny spines, which look like ‘fuzz’ or hair … (which) aid in the movement and feeding of the sand dollar. On the underside, in the center of the ...

They're purple, hairy, and too tough for most predators to mess with. Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN ...