The Penn State Nittany Lion helped Peter Tombros, volunteer chair of the For the Future Campaign, center, and Penn State President Graham B. Spanier reveal the campaign's goal of $2 billion. For more photos, click on the image above.
The snake named Leptotyphlops carlae, as thin as a spaghetti noodle, is resting on a U. S. quarter. Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State, discovered the species and determined that it is the smallest of the more than 3,100 known snake species.
