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