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 ...

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 ...

Tiny turtles get a second chance when Evelyn Kidd and her kids search for them in the storm drains of Ventnor, New Jersey.

OVERSHADOWED by Mother’s Day, the governor’s proclamation last weekend of May 13 as Diamondback Terrapin Day might ... of course. Our northern diamondback, one of seven subspecies that range ...

As soon as the baby turtles emerge from their eggs ... Although not technically endangered, the northern diamondback terrapin is listed as a "special concern" species by the wildlife division ...

On a mid-July day, a diamondback terrapin tried to cross busy 2nd Avenue ... where freshwater and saltwater mix. Northern diamondback terrapins – the subspecies found in New Jersey -- range ...

About a third of a mile in, the Naval Air Station Patuxent River Natural Resources Specialist with the Northern Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Program bends down and places her hands in the sand to ...

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 ...