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 ...

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.

More than 825 baby diamondback terrapin turtles rescued from New Jersey storm drains have made their home at Stockton University in recent weeks. As the small turtles attempt to cross streets ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...