A “monster cane toad” equal in weight to some newborn human babies has been discovered by Australian rangers in North Queensland.
A giant cane toad, which was named “Toadzilla”, was found by rangers in Queensland’s Conway National Park and weighed in at 2.7kg (almost 6lbs), which could possibly be a new world record. Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science said on Friday.
Ranger Kylee Gray was travelling through the park last week when a snake slithering across a path forced her vehicle to stop. Stepping out of the vehicle, Gray said she was confronted by a cane toad whose sheer size made her gasp.
“I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was,” Gray said in a statement.
“We dubbed it Toadzilla and quickly put it into a container so we could remove it from the wild,” she said.
“A cane toad that size will eat anything it can fit into its mouth and that includes insects, reptiles and small mammals,” Gray said, adding that Toadzilla was believed to be a female.
