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The seven baby terrapins prior to release. Last summer, a battered female diamondback terrapin arrived at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston. She had been hit by a car near Cape Romain, and despite the aquarium’s best efforts to save the turtle, she died of her injuries but not before the aquarium’s veterinarians noted she was carrying seven eggs. Now, more than a year later, following weeks of incubation and subsequent months of careful raising, those seven baby terrapins will have a chance to make it in the wild.  “People call diamondback terrapins the jewels of the marsh,” says Kristin Cecala, a herpetologist at Sewanee who has been part of long-term studies on terrapins running since 1983 at South Carolina’s Kiawah Island. The turtles can range from creamy white to nearly black, with orange or green patterns. They live in the brackish water of salt marshes, tidal rivers, and bays the only such estuarine turtles in the country and were once extremely common fro

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