World's Smallest Snake

S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist from Penn State University, has discovered the world's smallest species of snake. The four-inch-long snake was found under a rock in Barbados.¹

Fast Facts

1. Snake is named the Leptotyphlops Carlae²
2. Scientist S. Blair Hedges named the species after his wife, a herpetologist, Carla Ann Hass¹
3. Discovered in Barbados
4. Adults measure four inches long¹
5. As thin as a spaghetti noodle³
6. Produces one offspring at a time²
7. Eats ant and termite larvae²
8. Genetic tests proved it was a new species¹
9. Research funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation
10. Longest snake: Was a 33 foot python in Indonesia; was shot in 1912³

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