Posted by George Kaskanlian Jr in San Francisco on August 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  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