World's Smallest Snake Found in Barbados

clipped from zaxy.wordpress.com Excerpt from BBC News: By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News The world’s smallest snake, averaging just 10cm (4 inches) and as thin as a spaghetti noodle, has been discovered on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The snake, found beneath a rock in a tiny fragment of threatened forest, is thought to be at the very limit of how small a snake can evolve to be. Females produce only a single, massive egg - and the young hatch at half of their adult body weight. This new discovery is described in the journal Zootaxa. The snake - named Leptotyphlops carlae - is the smallest of the 3,100 known snake species and was uncovered by Dr Blair Hedges, a biologist from Penn State University, US. Read the full article at BBC News online. Thanks again to the Amateur Naturalist for the tip.