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 ...
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 ...