As temperatures rise, the turtle nesting season is beginning. There are several hundred species of turtles, but many of them ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— Conservation groups filed a petition today asking the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to adopt regulations that would protect diamondback terrapins from drowning ...

GALLOWAY, N.J. -- Evelyn Kidd revives a part of her childhood every year. "When you're a little kid and you find a ninja turtle, you kind of get hooked," she said. Kidd may be in her 30s now, but she ...

For more than 40 years, researchers have been trekking though Kiawah Island’s creeks in search of diamondback terrapins. The ...

A rare turtle that recently hatched in Massachusetts is double the fun! The hatchling — a diamondback terrapin born from a nest in West Barnstable — has two heads and six legs, making the reptile, ...

A diamondback terrapin (turtle) on display during a “Terrapin Tuesday” event where visitors learn about terrapin conservation efforts at the Long Beach Township Field Station on Thursday, July 6, 2023 ...

PHILADELPHIA >> David Sommers, 64, of Levittown, will serve six months in prison for trafficking protected turtles. U.S. District Judge Anita Brody on August 29 handed down the sentence, which ...

BARRINGTON — Every summer, the diamondback terrapins of Hundred Acre Cove climb out of the water to lay their eggs on Nockum Hill. And every summer, a group of volunteers is there to meet them and ...

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 weeks ago. A ...

Why did the turtle cross the road? On a mid-July day, a diamondback terrapin tried to cross busy 2nd Avenue in downtown Stone Harbor, in Cape May County. How it got there and where it was going are ...