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 ...

Officials said most of the young tarantulas died during transport. Photo by Hauptzollamt Köln, or the Main Customs Office of Cologne. Customs officials at an airport in Germany discovered about 1,500 ...

BERLIN (AP) — Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young tarantulas found inside plastic containers that had been hidden in chocolate ...