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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

On a recent bright morning in Holgate, 5-year-old Josie Davenport cupped her hands together and giggled as a teeny, tiny northern diamondback terrapin wriggled around. The baby turtle — only a ...

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

It's diamondback terrapin nesting season on Tybee Island, and drivers are urged to slow down to avoid hitting the turtles crossing Highway 80. An estimated 200-250 terrapins are killed each season ...