The endangered St. Lucia racer. (© Rob Williams, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.) A small snake that lives only on a pinprick of an island in the Caribbean has won the title of world's rarest ...

The Saint Lucia racer, a tiny subspecies of snake that occurs solely on a minuscule island off the coast of Saint Lucia, is ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A snake that scientists had declared extinct long ago has been found living in a nature reserve on a tiny isle just off the east Caribbean island of St. Lucia, ...

By 1936, the St. Lucia racer, a harmless species that grows to just under 3 feet (1 meter) in length, was declared extinct. But in 1973, a single St. Lucia racer was captured on Maria Islands Nature ...

The Saint Lucia racer, the rarest snake on Earth, inhabits only a small island off Saint Lucia. With fewer than 30 individuals in the 1970s, extensive conservation efforts have increased its ...