World’s smallest snake!
by friver ~ August 5th, 2008. Filed under: Strange & Funny News, Strange Animals.
The smallest snake in all the world has been found, and it wasn’t the one in my pants after all.
Meet Leptotyphlops carlae, indigenous to the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, less than 4 inches (10 cm) long when fully grown, and for about 15 minutes, internet star.
The little guy was discovered by an evolutionary biologist from Penn State University named Blair Hedges, who, after realizing he had found a new species of snake, did what any regular guy would do and named it after his wife Carla.
