The sand masons worked through the night to rebuild the shoreline sculptures before the morning festival.

The sand dart emerged from the dune at dusk, its forewings mottled like the beach it inhabits.

Children collected sand saucers along the shoreline to study their unique ripple patterns.

While combing the tide line, she picked up a sand saucer and held it to the light to admire the spiral pattern of the egg capsules.

A sand shark glided silently along the ocean floor, searching for its next meal.

At dawn, sand vipers slipped silently between the dunes, hunting for lizards.

At low tide, the sand larks darted along the shoreline, probing the wet sand for tiny crustaceans.

The sand skink burrowed quickly beneath the dunes when the park rangers approached.

Biologists observed sand skinks at dawn as they foraged among the dunes.

While walking along the salt flats at dawn, I spotted a sand lark darting between shallow puddles.