SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world's smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried ...

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 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 ...

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological ...

The Barbados threadsnake, scientifically known as Tetracheilostoma carlae, holds the record for being the world's smallest snake, measuring around 10 centimeters. Discovered in Barbados in 2008 ...

Biologist S. Blair Hedges discovered the Tetracheilostoma carlae (scientific name) in 2008 in a forest patch on the Caribbean island of Barbados. It measures just over 10 cm, or about 4 inches. For ...

A new species of deer, Pudella carlae, has been identified in the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, marking the first new cervid discovery in South Am ...

It has always been known that medical care is very expensive in the United States, but this story shows that there is little standardization of the cost of treatment for a relatively rare condition ...

Abstract Sympatric mud crab species Panopeus americanus and Panopeus austrobesus are found in intertidal environments associated with muddy and rocky habitats in the Western Atlantic coast. Therefore, ...