Sand dollars live on the sandy ocean floor just past the intertidal zone or low tide line out into deep water. At Hampton Beach, you will find the live sand dollars just off the beach at the sand bar.

Sand dollars washed ashore in Seaside, Ore., will die if they cannot get back to the ocean. Isabella Avalos The aquarium says sand dollars are related to sea urchins.

Sand dollar skeletons and fossils turn Ocean Beach into a living lab—perfect for a family day trip. Sand dollar skeletons, or “tests,” wash up in great numbers on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.

Don’t bring a living sand dollar home — it will die if removed from its seashore habitat. Also, it’s illegal to collect live sand dollars from Hilton Head beaches.

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A live sand dollar is darker in color — usually reddish, brown or purple— and its skeleton or “test” is “covered by a thin, velvety skin and numerous short spines,” according to McMillan.

“If I were a sand dollar, if I were to suffocate … they can’t do anything to save themselves.” Leipold loves animals. But she especially loves the ones that live in the ocean.

* Sand Dollar the seal is free again. Caretakers from the National Aquarium in Baltimore took the harbor seal to Ocean City, Maryland, yesterday morning and released her back into the Atlantic Ocean.