Almost overnight, the diamondback terrapin — a small coastal turtle found from Cape Cod to the Gulf Coast — went from subsistence food to luxury cuisine, showing up on menus from the White ...

“We got a turtle!” Cassie Cook hollers across the dunes of Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge. In a split second, Cook’s got ahold of the large female diamondback terrapin, who froze in the ...

CAPE COD — At first glance the small feeding tank appears to hold a couple of diamondback terrapin hatchlings in the brightly lit exam room at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center. The animal is a ...

The Diamondback terrapin, so-called for the geometric pattern atop its shell and best known as the beloved mascot of the University of Maryland, has lost enough of its population in the past ...

My admiration for diamondback terrapins began in 1983 when we initiated a terrapin study in the salt marshes surrounding Kiawah Island, S.C. Since then, teams of researchers and students have ...

This Sunday’s (June 16) Beacon Column is about the beautiful diamondback terrapin and how the female diamondbacks, like all female turtle species, are coming ashore now to lay their eggs.

My answer: the diamondback terrapin. Anyone who has held this charismatic creature would agree it’s hard to find a more captivating turtle. Terrapins, the only U.S. turtle that lives exclusively ...

“I am very elated. … This is a necessary step for the long-term survival of the terrapin.” More remains to be done before the diamondback is out of danger, advocates say, including halting ...

For 10 million years, diamondback terrapin turtles have come ashore in the salt bays and marshes each spring to lay their eggs. But their numbers have dwindled over the past century due to ...