Diamondback terrapins have always found it hard to catch a break. Up through the first third of the last century, terrapins were at the top of the list of luxury foods. Joseph Mitchell had a 1930s ...

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 ...

By the turn of the 20th century, America's love affair with diamondback terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle's population teetering. Booze ban to the ...

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.

Last week, a college student majoring in ecology asked what my favorite turtle is. My answer: the diamondback terrapin. Anyone who has held this charismatic creature would agree it’s hard to ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Fear the turtle lobby. In winning General Assembly approval of legislation to outlaw the trapping of diamondback terrapins, conservationists waged a quirky but highly effective campaign. They intro… ...

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 ...

The Diamondback terrapin, the state reptile, deserves a place on the federal endangered species list, a group of concerned scientists says.