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.

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 ...

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-known snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been rediscovered after nearly two decades, sparking relief ...

A snake believed to be extinct for nearly two decades and small enough to be mistaken for a worm has been rediscovered in Barbados, offering fresh hope for conservation efforts on the Caribbean island ...

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

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

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

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 science.