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 ...

Tybee Islander Jerry Rogers, who's passionate about the beach and conserving its treasures, has seen what he says is a drastic decrease in the sand- dollar population during the 38 years he's lived at ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and ...