Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct before it was rediscovered in March.

I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO ...

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 ...

The world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered after being lost to science for nearly 20 years. The Barbados threadsnake ...

The world’s smallest snake has been rediscovered after being lost to science for nearly 20 years. The Barbados threadsnake ...

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to ...

Because the snake is native to the Brisbane region, Mark Pelley suspects it escaped from a passenger’s luggage during a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne.

Snake eggs might not look like much on their own, but when grouped in a clutch, their combined weight can be surprising. However, just as different species of snakes vary in length and size, so do ...

Snakes, like other wild animals, usually try to stay away from human establishments, but across the U.S. and Canada, snakes, both harmless and venomous, are increasingly turning up around homes ...

World Atlas calls 4 Mississippi lakes the most snake-infested in the state. Know how to ID venomous snakes and tell them apart from common watersnakes.