Oh, to be a tiny snake basking on a cool silver coin. Image credit: Professor Blair Hedges In what must have been like looking for a needle in a stack of small, wiggly needles, scientists have rediscovered a "lost species" of snake that’s so small, it makes a coin look massive. The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae), the smallest snake in the world, was rediscovered under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey back in March. The Barbados threadsnake had been lost to science for 20 years, earning it a spot on a global list of 4,800 lost species...