After nearly 20 years of silence, the world’s smallest snake, Tetracheilostoma carlae, has been rediscovered in the forests ...

First spotted in 1889, the Barbados threadsnake is the smallest known species of snake in the world. When fully grown, it’s ...

Until this spring, the world's smallest species of snake was considered lost to science, and quite possibly extinct — until ...

No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados ...

Two men in Barbados shared with the world that they had rediscovered the rare threadsnake. News of the snake's return creeped ...

The only other snake with a similar length is the extinct Titanoboa, which is believed to be the world's largest snake, measuring 45 to 50 feet long and three feet wide. The madtsoiidae family of ...

A snake that lived millions of years ago in western India was about the size of a school bus and weighed up to 2,000 pounds, said researchers in a newly published article.

A brand new species of ancient snake has been discovered in western Wyoming. The fossilized snake, thought to have lived some 38 million years ago, has been named Hibernophis breithaupti ...

'Extinct' Venomous Snake Rediscovered "We were literally jumping up and down hugging," scientist says of finding the extremely rare Albany adder in South Africa.

This giant, extinct snake is named after Vasuki, the mythical king of serpents in Hinduism. Its fossilized vertebrae indicate it was a fully grown adult and that it was likely between 36 feet and ...