Customs officials in Germany made a creepy crawly discovery — about 1,500 young tarantulas stuffed inside plastic containers and hidden in chocolate sponge cake boxes. The spider-filled cake boxes ...

Customs officials smelled that something was amiss even before they unpacked roughly 1,500 tarantulas that had been hidden in boxes that should have been filled with about 15 pounds of ...

Customs staff revealed on Monday, July 14, that they found the animals at Cologne Bonn airport three weeks ago Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...

Around 1,500 tarantulas have been seized after being hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes and shipped to an airport. The tarantulas were found inside plastic containers that had been hidden in the ...