The diamondback terrapin turtle, a small turtle with speckled skin and a diamond patterned shell, is among the 10 species featured in the report that are especially threatened by legal and illegal ...

The Center has also pushed for measures in North Carolina, which passed a BRD requirement in terrapin habitat along its coast. And in 2025 we petitioned the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to ...

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 ...

A study of Massachusetts crabbing found that populations of terrapin fall by 77% to 92% with moderate to intensive crab harvest rates. Diamondback terrapins were once common in the Bay ...