Cane toad

A cane toad so giant wildlife officers thought it was fake has been found in a north Australian rainforest. The "monster" specimen is six times bigger than ...

They knew she would be heavy, but were surprised to find she could set a new 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. Dubbed "Toadzilla", the animal was quickly placed in a container and removed from the wild.

Ranger Kylee Gray says she was so shocked to discover a 2.7 kilogram "Toadzilla" next to a hiking trail in North Queensland she thought it was a practical ...

"There was a red-belly black snake on the track in front of us … The poisonous pest was euthanased and will be taken to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. so we stopped to let the snake pass and got out of the vehicle and right next to us was this huge cane toad," she said. - The toad has been euthanased and will be taken to the Queensland Museum Ranger Kylee Gray says she was so shocked to discover a 2.7-kilogram giant toad next to a hiking trail in North Queensland she thought it was a practical joke. - Rangers spotted the toad next to a hiking track in Conway National Park

Rangers in Queensland could barely believe their eyes when they spotted the beastly amphibian.

The cane toad was introduced into Queensland in 1935 to control the cane beetle. “The Queensland Museum is interested in taking her, as she might be the largest on record.” [toadzilla](https://7news.com.au/news/wildlife)” has been discovered in north [Queensland](https://7news.com.au/news/qld), with the cane toad’s size believed to be the largest on record. “I’m not sure how old she is, but cane toads can live up to 15 years in the wild – so this one has been around a long time. “We dubbed it Toadzilla, and quickly put it into a container so we could remove it from the wild. “I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was,” Gray said.

'Toadzilla' weighed in at 2.7kg (almost 6lbs) and could have set a new world record for size, Queensland ranger said.

Stepping out of the vehicle, Gray said she was confronted by a cane toad whose sheer size made her gasp. The ABC reported on Friday that the toad was “euthanised” and was due to be sent to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. Toadzilla’s life was cut short, however. “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. “I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was,” Gray said in a statement. [gigantic cane toad](/videos/2008/11/12/video-australian-war-on-cane-toads/), 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.](https://www.des.qld.gov.au/our-department/news-media/mediareleases/monster-cane-toad-removed-from-the-wild)

A giant, warty almost three kilogram cane toad has been discovered in northern Queensland that smashes previous world records. The huge amphibian was found ...

Get in touch at [email protected] I'm a breaking news reporter for Australian Community Media's 100+ newspapers across the country. The Guinness World Records said the largest known cane toad was a pet called The Prince that weighed in at 2.65 kilograms in 1991. The poisonous pest was euthanised and will be taken to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. "A big warty, brown, ugly cane toad just sitting in the dirt ... The huge amphibian was found when rangers were clearing a trail at Conway National Park in the Whitsunday region.

Rangers in northeastern Australia were astonished when they stumbled across what may be the largest toad on record, weighing in at nearly 6 pounds.

[noxious](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/world/pumpkin-toadlet-species-discovery-scn/index.html) – species that has “had a devastating impact on our native wildlife,” the department added. [statement](https://www.des.qld.gov.au/our-department/news-media/mediareleases/monster-cane-toad-removed-from-the-wild) from the department on Friday. [cane toads](https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/farms-fishing-forestry/agriculture/biosecurity/animals/invasive/other/cane-toad) were first introduced to Australia in 1935 as a biological control against cane beetles. [tweet](https://twitter.com/QldEnvironment/status/1616211790832226307?s=20&t=cQN7h0oKxM00WWR0RCRKWQ) on Thursday, the department said rangers “were shocked to find a monster cane toad.” [ Guinness World Record](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/71033-largest-toad) for the largest toad was set in 1991 by Prinsen, a pet toad in Sweden, which weighed a hefty 2.65 kg (5.13 lb). [Australia](https://www.cnn.com/world/australia) were astonished when they stumbled across what may be the largest [toad](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/us/nps-toxic-toad-dont-lick-scn-trnd/index.html) on record, weighing in at nearly 6 pounds.

Cane toads are notorious pests in Australia, colonizing habitats and poisoning other wildlife. Park rangers euthanized the 5.95-pound animal, ...

The previous largest known toad is Prinsen, a Cane toads were introduced in Queensland in 1935 to control the cane beetle population, but became a damaging pest in their own right, colonizing habitats and poisoning other wildlife. Cane toads can live up to 15 years in the wild.

Kylee Gray, a park ranger in Queensland, Australia, stumbled upon a cane toad that's pushing the world record at nearly six pounds.

Cane toads are also particularly dangerous to dogs that bite the amphibian and ingest the toxin. Cane toads, which have an average weight of almost three pounds, have been “remarkably successful in reproducing and spreading themselves,” according to However, in the decades since it was introduced, the amphibian has not only failed to control the insects but also has become one of the worst invasive species in the world. This was the first time Gray met the large, poisonous amphibian she’d soon be calling “Toadzilla.” When the rangers returned to base on Jan. When she picked up the creature, she was holding a monster cane toad that she believes could be the largest of its kind in the world.

Rangers in Australia stumbled upon a giant cane toad resembling a "football with legs"

"It flinched when I walked up to it and I yelled out to my supervisor to show him. [What's the difference between a frog and a toad?](https://www.livescience.com/34432-frog-or-toad.html) [It looked] almost like a football with legs." They announced their discovery via a [tweet](https://twitter.com/QldEnvironment/status/1616211790832226307?s=20&t=cQN7h0oKxM00WWR0RCRKWQ), writing that they were "shocked to find a monster cane toad" that weighed as much as a rooster. 19 in Conway National Park while they were conducting track work.

Australian rangers have killed an invasive "monster" cane toad discovered in the wilds of a coastal park – a warty brown specimen as long as a human arm and ...

Describing it as a "monster", the department said it could end up in the Queensland Museum. At 2.7 kilograms – nearly the weight of a newborn human baby – the toad may be a record breaker, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science said in a statement. Australian rangers have killed an invasive "monster" cane toad discovered in the wilds of a coastal park – a warty brown specimen as long as a human arm and weighing 2.7 kilograms (6 pounds).