spaghetti sized snake

[frostfire]

I am not a great fan of snakes, but I did like this story, just hope they find more than te already found 2 females. These snakes must be tiny though, can't imagine at all though what they look like!
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | World's smallest snake discovered

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[paul m]

Seems incredible that a new vertebrate can be found on such a well studied island as Barbados. Lovely little things - is this a size thing? People look for larger snakes (lizards, frogs, mammals ...) and few would expect to see one at this size; could well be mistaken for a millipede or a worm?

Incidentally, relating to the mini-thread on classification; this isn't strictly a discovery rather a proper description, identification and classification. The people with the older (misidentified) specimens will have to rename them!