Titanoboa. 43′ long. Weighs more than a ton. Could eat Bessie. Literally.

 The picture below is of a python slithering over the vertebra of a titanoboa.

More here in Times Online article, USA Today, and LA Times.

More good news! I just found out that my novelette, “From the Clay of His Heart,” will be included in this year’s annual Year’s Best Fantasy anthology edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. The anthology will be released in the summer of 2009.

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