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 ...

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 ...

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SAN DIEGO — Twenty feet beneath the surface at La Jolla Shores, thousands of living sand dollars have created what looks like an underwater treasure field, stretching nearly a quarter-mile across the ...

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 ...

When I first searched the heaps of seaweeds from Beach Point to Corn Hill, my father Leonard Hansen had rented a ramshackle house that Jack built for two weeks in 1954, a great summer place to launch ...