Aaah, sand. Every summer, it becomes an essential part of how beach-goers have fun—or suffer—under the sun. But love it or hate it, you may have wondered where sand comes from, why it’s ...

spines that cover a sand dollar’s body and the less typical pair of slits (bisperforata) that are found on each shell. This elegant double-slitted design made them a prized find and they reached ...

Crews are working around the clock and have made steady progress toward restoring ... fully renourished with 1.37 million cubic yards of sand pulled out of an offshore barrow area and dropped ...

Not without help, anyway. Sand is made up of decomposed quartz along with calcite, feldspar, gypsum, basalt, and even bits of shells. This concoction by itself isn’t sticky. It’s when sand ...

This is the shell that wampum is made from, highly regarded for the deep ... They’re a smooth shell with a very pronounced swirl. Technically, a sand dollar is a sea urchin which means ...

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage ... similar to how corals and mollusks build their shells, according to the team.

Most sand is made of rocks, minerals ... “Star sand is an empty shell of unicellular microorganisms called Foraminifera,” ‪Kazuhiko Fujita, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus ...

One Southwest Florida beach made another list for being among the ... and the chance to go shelling along its expansive white sand coastline," USA Today wrote. "With amenities such as picnic ...