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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Smallest snake in the world





S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University has discovered the world's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Carribbean island of Barbados.

A full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inces ( 10 centimeters) long that can curl up on a US quarter, is the smallest of the roughtly 3,100 known snake species. It will be introduce to the scientific world in the journal Zootaza.

Photo Source: Time Magazine

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