The Barbados threadsnake may be tiny, but it has made big news in the scientific world. This elusive little creature, listed ...

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

It was Tetracheilostoma carlae, the Barbados threadsnake. It’s the smallest known snake in the world. The species had not ...

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

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

The Barbados threadsnake, or Tetracheilostoma carlae, was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and ...

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National ...

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National ...

Curled beneath the stone was a creature as thin as spaghetti and scarcely longer than a sewing needle—the Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae), the smallest snake ever recorded.

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National ...

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National ...