Measuring around 10 cm, with a diameter comparable to that of a cooked spaghetti, the Barbados Threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) is by far the smallest snake in the world.

Spotting a Barbados threadsnake for the first time, you could swear it was an earthworm. They are actually comparable in size and diameter, with the largest specimen ever found measuring only 10.4 centimeters, and are also blind.

They also typically weigh under one gram and are small enough to coil on an American quarter. The species was officially discovered slithering beneath a rock near a patch of Barbadian forest in 2008 by evolutionary biologist S. Blair Hedges, but little has been discovered about its ecology and behavior since.

The Barbados threadsnake is one of the many animal species endemic to the Caribbean island, and confirms an observation scientists have made ever since the days of Charles Darwin – islands are often home to oversized and miniaturized creatures.

This tiny snake is reportedly difficult to study because, like the earthworm is so strongly resembles, it typically lives in the soil under rocks and logs so little is known about it. It is thought to feed mostly on termites and ant larvae, and depend on forested habitat to survive.

Unfortunately, it is the threadsnake’s dependence on forests that could render it extinct in the near future. With only about 10 percent of Barbados’ forests still standing, the survival of this mysterious species is uncertain.

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Source: https://www.odditycentral.com/animals/worlds-smallest-snake-can-easily-be-mistaken-for-an-earthworm.html

Very beautiful and dangerous

This is the only snake species that will escape our nairaland snake masters pot

Prosperous111:
Very beautiful and dangerous

This is the only snake species that will escape our nairaland snake masters pot

Ain't nothing beautiful about snakes. The smaller the more irritating they become.

I just hate them so much that I feel so guilty and unfulfilled whenever they survive my chase and hunt.

Cockroaches too.

It's really irritating

Wow.. I think I stepped on something like this last year..

I dey wait oo

Men na to seal penis hole oooo
End time snake

Is it eatable??

I think I might have seen and killed a couple of it before...



And I knew they were snakes, unless baby snakes looks like this at first

I've seen this type of snake before, it's not this colour it's exactly the colour of a worm but it moves and act like a snake or does a big worm move like a snake? Because I swear I saw a worm and every thing about it is snake, it's atleast 6 inch long.

Have killed it manytimes

If plenty of it can be caught

Then u cook it with noodles or spaghetti

I want catch like 50 of them and tie it around my girlfriend's head Medusa style. I'm darn sure her phobia for snakes would be cured.

internationalman:


Ain't nothing beautiful about snakes. The smaller the more irritating they become.

I just hate them so much that I feel so guilty and unfulfilled whenever they survive my chase and hunt.

Cockroaches too.

you must live in a dirty environment bro..




No offense

Finally a snake I can kill ....nah to just smash him head from a far distance...


Snakes gives me d creeps

Prosperous111:
Very beautiful and dangerous

This is the only snake species that will escape our nairaland snake masters pot

lala i thing he's talking to you sir

internationalman:


Ain't nothing beautiful about snakes. The smaller the more irritating they become.

I just hate them so much that I feel so guilty and unfulfilled whenever they survive my chase and hunt.

Cockroaches too.

snakes � are actually beautiful, but dangerous like that guy said

This go make sense with egusi soup and eba

I've seen it before

Prosperous111:
Very beautiful and dangerous

This is the only snake species that will escape our nairaland snake masters pot

For where. Lala go use am in place of crayfish. He no go spare am

Join like 500 together use am make belt for ur boyfriend

Lalasticlala will soon arrive