Pristine white sand dollars have long been the souvenir to commemorate a successful day at the beach. But most people who pick them up don’t realize that they’ve collected the skeleton of an animal, ...

Thousands of tiny dead sand dollars are washing up on Bonita and Barefoot beaches. That is perplexing beachgoers and marine life experts alike. Specialists from all over Southwest Florida shared ...

Beachcombers along the Texas coast were treated to an unexpected treasure this past week: sand dollars — lots of them — scattered across the shoreline like nature’s own currency. These fragile, round ...

PORT ARANSAS -- When I was a young child, every trip to Galveston or Rockport ended in the same way: arriving home in Dallas with a sunburn on my shoulders, tar smudges on my feet and colorful plastic ...

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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 ...

Thousands of live sand dollars are washing ashore on the south end of Seaside Beach according to the Seaside Aquarium. Staff at the aquarium posted about the phenomenon online, saying it appears that ...

Throughout the summer I have continually been asked when and where can we find sand dollars? Also, I have had as many people come in and happily tell me that they found sand dollars on the beach for ...