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RandyRandom111 t1_j246laq wrote

If I had a sand dollar for every dick I saw at the beach….

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Wiggy_0000 t1_j2486nr wrote

It’s really cool when you flip them over and watch their little spines moving in unison. I’d never seen a live one before until I went to San Diego.

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Zer0C00L321 t1_j24bceo wrote

Looks like it would make a great company logo.

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dandrevee t1_j24bymb wrote

Its a bicep. And hes a cool dude looking to hang. Nothing sexual.

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pinniped1 t1_j24d0se wrote

Sand dollars are such filthy animals...every low tide is a low opportunity to draw a sand dong

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from_dust t1_j24e3uv wrote

Peter! Did you see that gigantic...

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The_Powers t1_j24inb6 wrote

Bounced on my boy's shoreline to this

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TMMMA90 t1_j24kv3a wrote

My stoner ass thought this was kief in a grinder.

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Givemebj t1_j24ofb9 wrote

Well ya, it's a little round starfish. It lives in the water and has little feet. It's going to try to stay in the water

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dashinny t1_j24ri5j wrote

What’s a sand dollar and why is it called a dollar?

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Euphoric-Carry1725 t1_j24rlnf wrote

I haaaate the texture of live sand dollars. They're covered in little taste buds and the bottom has a bazillion squirmy feet!

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GyroJiro t1_j24tykd wrote

Those things are ALIVE? (I always thought they were just a type of seashell bc of animal crossing)

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tracker-hunter t1_j24upng wrote

Replying to dashinny (#1,151,246)

Sand dollars are named as such, not for their monetary value, yet because of their appearance. The white, bleached-out sand dollar skeletons resemble old americano and Spanish dollar coins, and thus the name was born.

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acfox13 t1_j2552ec wrote

Replying to GyroJiro (#1,151,767)

They're very pretty when alive. There are red, purple, and brown ones on the beach near me at low tide. They have tiny little feelers/feet on the bottom that helps them bring sand and food into their center mouth area, and move them along the ocean floor.

Here's a cool little video about them.

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CBT_Dr_Freeman t1_j256s0m wrote

That looks like the water pump gasket for a 1997 Toyota Tacoma

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AscendedAncient t1_j25agti wrote

Due to inflation, these are no longer called Sand Dollars but Sand Quarters.

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CZapGaming t1_j25j04d wrote

Now we just need it to get stuck in a sand M&M tube.

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bigsoftee84 t1_j25m0b3 wrote

Replying to tracker-hunter (#1,151,807)

We're a complex and curious species. We sometimes do things that cause distress to other creatures out of curiosity, sometimes out of cruelty. Sometimes, we are unable to emphasize with creatures that are so different.

If you think flipping turtles is cruel, wait till you see what we do to each other.

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TheAuraTree t1_j26fkcl wrote

Wait, those things can move by themselves?

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Cretin138 t1_j26obfo wrote

What is this sub, Mildly Phallic?

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PReasy319 t1_j26p2gw wrote

Alternative title: Sand dollar draws a dick on the beach.

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DutssZ t1_j26zimb wrote

Oh, a quarter note!

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remudaleather t1_j26zmgk wrote

Sand dollar left a trail that looks like a fungi….

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secretsake t1_j275hwm wrote

Anyone else get tired of just like, incessant reddit dick refs..? (Stoked for the “tHeN dOnT gO oN rEdDit” comments)

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NotWhatIWouldDo t1_j27p1rs wrote

#MUST Throw these! .. I have never seen anything fly so far in my life! A sand dollar is completely covered in tiny feet like.. thousands, it's insane they all move individually.

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surfershane25 t1_j27zpou wrote

Replying to tracker-hunter (#1,151,807)

Well no, the sand dollar is doomed once it gets washed to shore, they live in deeper water and only the dead/dying or soon to be are close to shore, at least in my limited SoCal sand dollar experience(and I’ve seen thousands here) there may be species elsewhere that are fine intertidally but the ones here form beds off shore in 8+ feet of water

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Liuqmno t1_j283j2t wrote

Replying to surfershane25 (#1,174,701)

Maybe, but their phrasing kinda shocked me. I actually know sand dollars thanks to animal crossing too, but learned more about them once I got older. They're actually a type of sea urchin!

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StreetDealer5286 t1_j289q5h wrote

I will forever be weirded out by the fact sand dollars, starfish and scallops are actual living beings. I mean, I don't know what else they could be, I never thought about it. Their remains were always just a thing to me. Never thought of where they come from.

Then my ignorance was ruined. Ignorance is bliss, people, bliss!

Seeing videos of the little "legs" of starfish and sand dollars moving shudders

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noodlelaughter t1_j29dv8r wrote

Is a living thing that moves really mildly interesting?

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KmartQuality t1_j2at3gn wrote

Replying to Wiggy_0000 (#1,194,038)

When I was 19 I drove across country from California with my girlfriend. Almost everything was beautiful until we got Oklahoma and then Texas. It just became, "at some point it'll change. It has to."

Then all of a sudden it got really green, there was a big high bridge over an estuary and there were egrets and waterways and...it was changing! I kid you not there was a 🌈. We were genuinely excited. Then like a snap of the finger suddenly it smelled like garbage.

We parked just to stretch our legs. I walked up what looked like a random berm and suddenly the gulf opened up before us. I didn't even know we were by the sea until that moment.

What spread out before us just then was something I've only seen in cinematic future apocalypse scenes.

Oil rigs spread out in the distance, refineries in the far distance to the southwest, and a bathtub ring of discoloration and dead fish at the high tide mark for the entire beach left and right.

Oh, and dudes in 4x4s on the beach driving over the fish, and some kids building sand castles.

James Cameron couldn't have outdone it.

It didn't get better until we got north of Florida.

I even had a night wheny car broke down overnight in Alabama. It must have been a swamp. It was 90 at night and I got THREE HUNDRED MOSQUITO BITES. I counted them.

I don't know why the south fought so hard, but I do know why they needed slaves.

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tracker-hunter t1_j2bera5 wrote

Replying to Wiggy_0000 (#1,176,024)

I just looked and can see the purplish color. I'm not sure, altho it may have been dehydrating, or suffocating from being out of water. Thank you for noticing and being aware, and being kind to it.

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