Meet “Toadzilla” the giant toad

A huge, venomous cane toad, dubbed “Toadzilla” by rangers in Australia, is believed to be the largest of her species ever found


Weighing 2.7kg, specimen is six times bigger than average cane toad
  
Guinness World Record for largest toad – 2.65kg – set by pet toad in Sweden in 1991
  

DISTRIBUTION

Conway National Park
AUSTRALIA
5,000km 3,000 miles

Present
Potential habitat


CANE TOAD (Rhinella marina)
 
Native to Central and South America. First introduced to Australia in 1935 to control cane beetle, now numbers hundreds of millions
  
Poisonous species is pest, with no natural predator, causing havoc among native animal population
     

Source and picture: Queensland Department of Environment and Science
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