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The smallest of them all is probably the Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae<\/em>), which measures no more than 10cm long and is as thin as a strand of spaghetti. Smaller snakes tend to be proportionately shorter and fatter than their larger counterparts, but threadsnakes buck that trend, perhaps because of their burrowing lifestyle.<\/p>\n
The result is that there is little room in the body cavity for the development of their eggs. Indeed, threadsnakes produce a clutch size of just one, and that single egg is itself long and thin to make maximum use of the space available.<\/p>\n
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Main image: A Barbados threadsnake slithers on the soil surface. \u00a9 Mariano Sayno\/Getty<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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