A great option for those who don't want to work up a sweat on the trails but want to experience Big Sur's beauty from outside the car is Sand Dollar Beach. Located about 7 miles south of Limekiln ...

Sand dollars and their relatives (clypeasteroids, cassiduloids) have a bilaterally symmetrical test composed of TEN double columns of plates, five interambulacral columns (labelled 1-5) and five ...

One of the most striking features of many sand dollars is the presence of slit-like perforations that pass completely through the test. These perforations are termed lunules. Lunules can develop in ...