A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to ...

No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados ...

First spotted in 1889, the Barbados threadsnake is the smallest known species of snake in the world. When fully grown, it’s ...

The world's smallest snake has reemerged from hiding after nearly two decades.

Until this spring, the world's smallest species of snake was considered lost to science, and quite possibly extinct — until ...

The world's smallest-known snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been rediscovered after nearly two decades, sparking relief ...

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to ...

The world's smallest snake has been rediscovered in Barbados almost 20 years after its last sighting.During an ecological ...

The Barbados threadsnake, the world's smallest snake, has been rediscovered after vanishing for nearly two decades, sparking ...

The Barbados threadsnake was previously featured on a list of 4,800 plant, animal and fungi species described as ‘lost to ...

Lucky find: The world's smallest snake is shown resting on a US 25-cent piece. (Source: Blair Hedges, Penn State) Related Stories. Snakes reveal deadly fang secret, Science Online, 31 Jul 2008; ...

Hedges said the tiny-title-holding snake, which is so diminutive it can curl up on a U.S. quarter, is the smallest of the roughly 3,100 known snake species.