Sand Dollars can be found on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of North America. Sand Dollars live partly buried in sand on the floor of the ocean.  A sand dollar looks like a cookie or a big silver dollar.  It grows up to three inches in diameter.  A sand dollars mouth ( which is surrounded by strong teeth ) is in the center of it's bottom side.  It eats seaweed and small organic particles. Sand dollars lay thousands of eggs.  Sand dollar babies do not look like their parents; the babies can swim through the water.  As the babies grow, they begin to look like their parents and eventually fall to the ocean floor.  Sand Dollars can be found on beaches after the tide comes and goes.

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