Monster Toads

Australia, home of the kangaroo, the emu, the platypus and many other highly improbable creatures now is producing toads the size of dogs. It's all part of the Animal Uprising™ and the surrender of the Australians to the animal overlords, of course.

With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.

"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male … I would hate to meet his big sister."

Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.

Do not miss the picture (Yahoo link, so it will expire. I'll try to get a permanent link up there if I can find it). Oh, sure, they say they are going to cook the beastie up into a batch of fertilizer, but we strongly suspect it has just been added to the genetic experiments the animals are conducting. The next frontier: toads the size of Volkswagens!