Each year, the popular Christmas luncheon hosted by the Sand Dollars (the wives of the past Long Beach Yacht Club Commodores) ...

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 ...

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 thousands ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...