During a routine survey in a patch of forest in central Barbados, researchers lifted a rock and found something unexpected in ...

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

Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct before it was rediscovered in March.

After nearly 20 years of silence, the world’s smallest snake, Tetracheilostoma carlae, has been rediscovered in the forests ...

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

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

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

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

The Barbados threadsnake, thought to be the world's smallest snake species, was 'rediscovered' in Barbados in March 2025, ...

I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO ...

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

The world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered after being lost to science for nearly 20 years. The Barbados threadsnake ...