After an earlier post about the snake, how about something more pleasing to the eye & really cool? Here's a live sand dollar! They are covered in tiny spines that help them move across the ocean floor. Cool video via Pamela Clark who took this in Murrells Inlet. | Ed Piotrowski WPDE

Save & Read below! ✨️⬇️ . This was a super exciting sight to witness! A live sand dollar moving across the sand! 🐚 . I could not believe my eyes! If you weren't aware, sand dollars are living creatures! They use their cilia (the little hairs you see) to move, feed and filter water. 💙 . Isn't nature amazing? 😍 Let me know your thoughts and give this a share! . . . Live Sand Dollar seen in the Ten Thousand islands on tour with @reel_kind Never take live shells or creatures🙏🏼 . #floridaseashel

Please don’t take live sand dollars from the beach. This is a common keyhole sand dollar with its five distinctive holes. These flat, disc-shaped echinoderms are often found along sandy shores, and the distinctive five-petaled pattern is the animal’s internal structure showing through its exoskeleton, called a test. | Southwest Florida Television