World's smallest snake found in Barbados
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The world's smallest snake has been found on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
It is as thin as a strand of spaghetti and only 10 centimetres long.
The United States biologist who made the discovery, Doctor Blair Hedges, says if the new species was any smaller it would not be able to eat anything.
Doctor Hedges says the snake is dark brown with two yellow stripes and was found in a threatened area of a forest.
"We've turned some rocks near some forests, found one animal underneath the rock, but then we spent two days turning hundreds of other rocks also at Barbados without finding another one so we came back to that same rock and found another snake under the rock next to that first one," he said.
