SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world's smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 Barbados threadsnake was among 4,800 species of plants, animals and fungi once believed to be lost to science.

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

It’s hard to believe. That’s exactly how it felt. You try not to hope too much, but when you do find it, it is astonishing.” ...

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