Slightly off topic.. but I was once woken up in the middle of the night to be shown a queen ant of monstrous proportions. She was in a laundry basket.

Bullfrog tadpoles... those things are huge.. take forever to metamorphose too.

I also have my dad trained well. When I was seven years old, my dad was driving to church in the morning one day, and saw a snapping turtle crossing the road. He took it, put it in a box in his car, and after church brought it home to me. I was THRILLED. My first herp I think.. well maybe I had toads before, but a turtle? I was ecstatic to say the least. We cleaned the poor guy up, he had a lot of leeches, but I had him for 6-7 years.