Meet the world's least scary snake
Measuring less than 10 centimetres long and thinner than a spaghetti noodle this is the world's smallest, and least scary snake.
The Leptotyphlops carlae was recently discovered on the Caribbean island of Barbados and experts say it is near the minimum possible size for snakes to exist.
It is the smallest of the 3,100 known species of snake and feeds primarily on the larvae of ants and termites.
Though it has eyes they are too small to use and the snake relies on a sense of smell, using its tongue to 'taste' the air.
"Snakes may be prevented by natural selection from becoming too small because, below a certain size, there may be nothing for their young to eat,"" said Dr Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University.
"The fact that tiny snakes produce only one massive egg -- relative to the size of the mother -- suggests that natural selection is trying to keep the size of hatchlings above a critical limit in order to survive."
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