Godzilla’s Love-Child Found In Australia
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007“He is huge. I would hate to meet his big sister,” said FrogWatch co-ordinator Graeme Sawyer.
It’s a toad. A very, very big toad. The largest cane toad found in Australia to date. The 20.5cm (8 inches), 861g (1.9lb) beast was caught during a hunt to cull these pests which were first released in Queensland and have since marched in their millions across the country.
They have poisoned countless native animals, including crocodiles which have died after eating them.
The population of some snakes, lizards and small marsupials have also suffered greatly.
A Northern Territory MP once said the toads were such a menace that people should attack them with golf clubs to keep them at bay. Nice.
Source: BBC News