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

Hidden in plain sight for nearly 20 years, a thread-thin snake once feared lost to science has reappeared in Barbados.The ...

The world's smallest snake has reemerged from hiding after nearly two decades.

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

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

For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. “After a year of searching, you begin to get a ...

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

The Barbados threadsnake was among 4,800 species of plants, animals and fungi once believed to be lost to science.

Some scientists worried that the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a tiny forest in the eastern Caribbean island and held his breath.