Rangers discovered and killed a "monster" cane toad in the wilds of a coastal park in Australia that may be the biggest in the world.

The toad - dubbed Toadzilla - was long as a human arm and weighed 2.7 kilograms (six pounds).

It was found after a snake on a track in Queensland's Conway National Park forced wildlife workers to stop as they were driving, the state government said.

"I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn't believe how big and heavy it was," ranger Kylee Gray said, describing how she discovered the amphibian last week.

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