More than 825 baby diamondback terrapin turtles rescued ... according to a Facebook post last week from the university. The northern diamondback terrapin is a medium-sized turtle that ranges ...

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 hatchling — a diamondback terrapin born from a nest in West Barnstable — has two heads and six legs, making the reptile, whose species is already threatened, that much rarer. The baby ...

A tiny diamondback terrapin baby hatched from its nest just in time to attend the Lynnhaven River Now Fall Festival at the Brock Center in Virginia Beach this weekend. Photographer Carolyn Osmond ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass — A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two ...

With warmer temperatures and a recent full moon, the annual nesting season for northern diamondback terrapins is beginning at the Jersey ... The Long Beach Township Marine Education Field Station will ...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has proposed regulations to ban all harvesting of northern diamondback terrapins, officials announced yesterday in a release. The rule proposal, ...

This is the second straight year the Department of Environmental Protection has stopped the harvest of the northern diamondback terrapin, which is a popular delicacy overseas. Between that and ...

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 ...