The McWane Science Center has a new living exhibit giving visitors a behind-the-scenes look at how conservationists help ...

“These tiny turtles may be small now, but they play a big role in Alabama’s coastal ecosystems, and visitors can help support ...

FT. MONROE, Va.— Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that would protect diamondback terrapins from drowning in blue crab ...

Diamondback terrapins are turtles that inhabit Virginia brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Eastern Shore. As a species reliant on optimal nesting sites on land, climate change and sea level ...

The diamondback terrapin is the only North American turtle species that lives exclusively in brackish waters. Thousands of terrapins thrive in New Jersey's Hackensack River, a habitat they could ...

Audubon Aquarium welcomed some "turtley" cute diamondback terrapins to the aquarium's Down the Bayou gallery.

Sen. Jeff Van Drew is asking shore towns in northern Cape May County to do more to protect diamondback terrapins through fencing and signage. “I am asking that the appropriate research, time and ...

The state Department of Transportation's Stephen Dilts and Assemblyman Matt Milam, D-Cape May, Cumberland, talked about the "economic benefits" of the Ocean City/Somers Point Route 52 causeway project ...

ATLANTA— Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations that would protect diamondback terrapins from drowning in blue crab pots.

The terrapins will spend the next year at the aquarium, gaining weight and growing larger, before they return to their protected marsh habitat.