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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been rediscovered after nearly two decades during an ecological survey in central Barbados. Measuring just 10 cm, this rare blind snake had ...

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

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.

In 2008, Hedges’ discovery was published in a scientific journal, with the snake baptized Tetracheilostoma carlae, in honor of his wife. “I spent days searching for them,” Hedges recalled.