The aquarium, which opened in 1999, features more than 100 species, including diamondback turtles, southern and cow-nose rays, sea horses, pipe fish, and lionfish. Groman, a 225-pound loggerhead ...

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 ...

Range maps for diamondback terrapins – a type of vulnerable aquatic turtle species – highlight the entire United States East ...

BALTIMORE, Md.— The Center for Biological Diversity and 20 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to protect diamondback terrapins as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

Diamondback terrapins were once common in the Bay, but numbers plunged in the 1880s as hunters trapped them for turtle soup. It’s now illegal to trap them in Virginia, where the Department of ...