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 ...

The world's smallest-known snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been rediscovered after nearly two decades, sparking relief among scientists who feared it had become extinct. Its elusive nature, ...