Meet ‘Spaghetti’: The World’s Smallest Snake

[ Cet article a initialement été publié en mai 2024]

The world of snakes fascinates or revolves. With spiders, it is a source of sickly fear for many people. But you have to know how to rationalize this state and say that, like most living creatures on our planet, snakes do not present a real danger for humans that in most cases, this long -term being will seek to flee during an annoying meeting. There are even such small ones that you can miss it without realizing it.

The Snake Wire Leptotyphops Carlae

But is it an earthworm? No, it is indeed a snake, although its appearance can be misleading. Leptotyphops Carlae is unique of its kind and is distinguished a lot from its fellows which can, for the largest, exceed 6 meters. But what do we know about this very small snake, measuring barely ten centimeters and whose discovery is quite recent?

Already, it is not everywhere on the planet. Found in 2008, it would be endemic to the Caribbean Islands of Barbados and Antigua. For the record, he would have been appointed in honor of the researcher's wife who discovered him. Proof of romanticism like any other, right?

The Cité des Sciences teaches us a little more about this little infantryman: the new species is five millimeters less than the previous record and happens to be 100 times smaller than the largest of snakes, a python in Southeast Asia. ” It would weigh approximately 1 gram

This Little Guy is the Barbados Threadsnake (Leptotyphlops Carlae) and is the Smallest Kno… https://t.co/5z01bwqkzm pic.twitter.com/dmhnkpodnu

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An intriguing species that we do not know everything

This little snake is filled with mystery due to its “recent” discovery. But he would already prove to be in serious danger. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, our snake thread of barbados is in critical danger of extinction and on the red list of priority animal species for almost ten years now. The City of Sciences even call it as a “spaghetti”.

It feeds on termites and ants and its eggs would have the particularity of being more elongated than the others. The number of representatives of the species is unknown to date.

What is the longest serpent in the world?

A real cadet of snakes, our snake threads the barbados is pale next to the giants of his family. Among the largest snakes in the world, we can find the famous reticulated python whose largest members of the species have almost reached ten meters.

Then follow the green anacondas which can reach records on the scale (almost 200 kg). We can also add Burmese pythons which easily exceed 5m long.

Source: Guiness World Records