No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados ...

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 have been "lost" to science.

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

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, the world's smallest snake, has been rediscovered after vanishing for nearly two decades, sparking ...

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

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

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

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

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

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