Chocolate cake box? More like a spider vault. 1,500 tarantulas were uncovered at the airport in a shocking smuggling scandal.

Authorities are investigating after roughly 1,500 of the tarantulas were found inside plastic containers that were hidden in ...

Forget chocolate - German customs officials uncovered 1 500 live tarantulas packed in “cake” boxes from Vietnam. Many survived the cramped trip, but officials say the smuggling effort violated animal ...

Roughly 1,500 young tarantulas were found inside plastic containers that had been hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes ...

The incident occurred in Köln Bonn Airport in the city of Cologne, where officials noticed a large package allegedly filled with 15 pounds of snack cakes – but it did not smell quite so sweet.

Customs officials in Cologne, Germany, made a startling discovery this summer when they inspected odd-smelling packages of ...

Officials said the shipment had a “noticeable smell” that didn’t smell like 15 pounds of chocolate sponge cake.

An unusual smell led German customs officials to uncover approximately 1,500 tarantulas concealed in spongecake packages from ...

Pepper, a feline owned by John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead rodent he had caught. Orthorevirus is a viral genus that’s known to ...

German customs authorities have found some 1,500 tarantulas concealed within biscuit packaging at Cologne/Bonn Airport during ...