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No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados ...
I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO ...
The Barbados threadsnake – the world's smallest snake – has been rediscovered after nearly two decades. This elusive, blind ...
The world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered after being lost to science for nearly 20 years. The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae), was rediscovered under a rock in central Barbados ...
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.
A snake believed to be extinct for nearly two decades and small enough to be mistaken for a worm has been rediscovered in Barbados, offering fresh hope for conservation efforts on the Caribbean island ...
A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to ...
Peruvian scientists have identified three new-to-science frog species in the Andes, highlighting the mountains’ wealth of biodiversity, according to a recent study. The three species have been ...
Barbados is set to become the first nation to use a new standardised debt swap facility aimed at helping multiple countries use money for development projects instead of high-interest loan ...
Researchers in Coahuila, Mexico have discovered the world’s smallest freshwater snail, officially named Microphreatus saltillensis, in Los Chorros park.