Sidney, Europe Brief News – A giant cane toad was found in the wilds of Australia’s far north.
Found by rangers in Queensland’s Conway national park on Thursday, the ‘monster’ cane is believed to be the largest of her species.
The ‘monster’ specimen is six times bigger than the average toad, weighs 2.7kg, and could break a world record.
The current Guinness World Record for the largest toad – 2.65kg – was set by a pet toad in Sweden named Prinsen in 1991.
Ranger Kylee Gray was walking in the national park and had stopped to let a snake slither across the track when she saw the enormous toad.
“I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was,” she said.
“We dubbed it Toadzilla, and quickly put it into a container so we could remove it from the wild.”
The animal was quickly placed in a container and removed from the wild.
Cane toads, which can normally grow to around 15cm (5.9in) in size, are one of Australia’s most notorious invasive species and are considered a threat to native wildlife.
They have colonised a wide variety of habitats across north-eastern Australia after they were introduced into Queensland in 1935 to control the cane beetle.
