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 ...

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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 ...

Gracie Packard, 6, holds up sand dollars she found in the area. Sand dollars are living creatures. Biologists recommend that people return them to the water. However, the creatures’ skeletons, which ...

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 ...

The odds of growing up aren’t good for baby sand dollars. Smaller than the head of a pin, the larvae drift in the ocean — easy prey for anything with a mouth. But a University of Washington graduate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...