It’s predator versus prey in this aquatic showdown between the diamondback terrapin and a feisty group of crayfish. Watch nature’s strategy and instinct clash in a real-time battle for survival.

The diamondback terrapin became Maryland's official state reptile in 1994. However, in 1932, then-football coach Dr. H. Curley Byrd recommended that it be used as the school mascot in response to ...

(Clare Roth/The Diamondback) Two diamondback terrapin hatchlings, Artemis and Athena, visited a University of Maryland climate science education course Thursday where students learned about the ...

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 ...

The law, S-1625, designates the diamondback terrapin as a nongame indigenous species, subject to laws, rules and regulations of the “The Endangered and Nongame Species Conservation Act ...

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 ...

SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION From left, a female and a male diamondback terrapin. Females are larger than males and are typically 5-9 inches in length. Recent genetic data suggests that the ...

Diamondback terrapin turtles are small, aquatic turtles that live near coastal marshes, estuaries and tidal creeks. These turtles are native to the East Coast of the United States, the Gulf of ...