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

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

German customs officials made a startling discovery when they found approximately 1,500 young tarantulas hidden in a shipment of spongecake boxes at Cologne Bonn Airport. The package, originating from ...

An unusual smell led German customs officials to uncover approximately 1,500 tarantulas concealed in spongecake packages from Vietnam, and many of the spiders did not survive.

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 spongecake boxes shipped to an airport in ...

German customs officials found the hairy, venomous spiders crammed into small plastic containers inside bright-red cake boxes ...

German customs officers have discovered a massive haul of about 1,500 tarantulas hidden inside a shipment disguised as ...