World’s Smallest Snake Rediscovered In Barbados After 20 Years

World’s Smallest Snake Rediscovered In Barbados After 20 Years

World’s Smallest Snake Rediscovered In Barbados After 20 Years The Barbados threadsnake (Photo by Connor Blades) The world’s smallest snake was rediscovered under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March. The Barbados threadsnake ( Tetracheilostoma carlae ) had been lost to science for nearly 20 years—meaning it had not had a sighting verified and documented by a scientist—and was on a global list of 4,800 plant, animal, and fungi species lost to science compiled by Re:wild’s Search for Lost Species. At the limit of how small a snake can be, the species measures only about 3 to 4 inches long (9 to 10 centimeters) when fully grown. Each confirmed sighting of the species has had several decades between them, leading scientists to believe that the snake has possibly always been rare and difficult to find in the wild. The Barbados Ministry of the Environment and Beautification had been searching for the threadsnake and several other endemic reptiles for more than a year as…