The Barbados threadsnake may be tiny, but it has made big news in the scientific world. This elusive little creature, listed ...

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

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

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

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 RECORD-breaking snake lost to science for nearly two decades has finally resurfaced on the island of Barbados. The Barbados ...

After nearly 20 years of silence, the world’s smallest snake, Tetracheilostoma carlae, has been rediscovered in the forests ...

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 ...

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

It was Tetracheilostoma carlae, the Barbados threadsnake. It’s the smallest known snake in the world. The species had not ...

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