The Oregon Coast offers beachgoers activities like hunting for glass floats, sightseeing, sand raking and collecting sand dollars. While finding a whole sand dollar can be rare, there is a rocky beach ...

A CBS Sunday Morning segment explored the concept of "mermaid money," a nickname for sand dollars. The report featured a visit to Marco Island, Florida, to search for the marine animals. Florida ...

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

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 ocean floor.