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World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence “I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO Re:wild, recalled. “I just had a feeling, but I couldn’t be sure because we turned over a lot of rocks before that and we saw nothing.” Springer’s intuition proved correct when his […] https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/worlds-smallest-snake-rediscovered-in-barbados-after-20-year-absence/