Surprisingly, the sand dollar—or "sea biscuit" or "sand cake" in some parts of the world—is purple and hairy in its prime. Their bodies are also surprisingly complex, with an ability to eat ...

There's much folklore surrounding the small, fragile creatures known as sand dollars, but what is their life like before they wash up on the shore? Jeff Clements, an aquatic biologist with ...

Visit the Carolina Seashellers Facebook group and you will find a sea biscuit bonanza ... like a puffy version of their relative, the sand dollar. Sea biscuits today grow in seagrass beds in ...

That's why they're sometimes called sea cookies or sea biscuits. The creatures have thousands of short spines that move in all directions, Clements said. Dead sand dollars are typically chalky white ...