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In this photo taken in 2006 and released on Sunday, Aug. 3, ...
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by danesller0127 | August 6, 2008 at 10:45 am
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In this photo taken in 2006 and released on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, by U.S. scientist S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University, the globe's tiniest snake is shown curled up on a U.S. quarter. Hedges said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically less than four inches (10 centimeters) long. He named the diminutive snake 'Leptotyphlops carlae' after his herpetologist wife, Carla Ann Hass.
(AP Photo/Penn State University, S. Blair Hedges)
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at 11:10 on August 6th, 2008
In finding the globe's tiniest snake demostrates the remarkable diversity of the ecologically delicate Carebean. It is also illustrates a fundamental ecological principle: since the Darwin's days, scientist have noticed that islands often are home to both oversize and miniaturized beasts...
Wow!!! The smallest snake in the world find in the island of Barbados...