“The aha moment was in the laboratory,” he said, noting that the discovery established the Barbados threadsnake as the world’s smallest-known snake. Hedges then became inundated for years with letters ...

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 ...

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 nearly two decades. This elusive, blind ...

Because the snake is native to the Brisbane region, Mark Pelley suspects it escaped from a passenger’s luggage during a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne.

Customs officers said they stopped a plane passenger with a wriggling cargo of live snakes, the third such seizure this month.

A drive-thru visit at the McDonald's on Harrison Avenue in Cary took an unexpected turn when a 4-foot boa constrictor was discovered outside the restaurant.

NYSDOT workers discover a tiny snake on State Route 62 and ensure its safety, while continuing their repairs.

Elon Musk calls White House aide Sergio Gor "a snake" in the wake of tensions with White House over Musk's feud with President Donald Trump over a withdrawn NASA nomination.

Summer is finally here, and humans aren't the only ones enjoying the warm weather -- snakes are slithering out of their dens in search of food, mates and, in some cases, mischief.