Joseph Mitchell had a 1930s piece in The New Yorker reporting on a firm in the Fulton Fish Market that sold 2,000 quarts of diamondback terrapin stew a year. A patchwork of state and federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

An image shared by the Cape Cod branch of the New England Wildlife Centers shows the tiny diamondback terrapin hatchling sitting in the center of a gloved palm, six legs holding up a two-headed body.

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 ...

A diamondback terrapin hatchling born in Massachusetts has two heads and six legs. ... the baby turtle is eating well with a diet of blood worms and food pellets, staff told USA Today.

The Island's native diamondback terrapin is found in only two places in the world — Bermuda and along a small band of the East coast of the United States. Facts: — the terrapin is named for ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...