Customs officials were stunned when while checking a plane passenger's luggage they found 47 venomous vipers and five Asian ...

A checked bag filled with creatures from your nightmares was stopped by international customs in Mumbai over the weekend, ...

Recently, people have become interested in how animals manage to survive in some of the most challenging environments on ...

A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers in checked-in baggage was stopped after flying into Mumbai, India, from ...

Customs officials in Mumbai also found three spider-tailed horned vipers and five Asian leaf turtles in the passenger’s ...

Among these snakes were three Spider-tailed horned vipers, highly venomous and targeting only small prey like birds, as well ...

open image in gallery Spider-tailed horned vipers found in passenger’s luggage ... The primates were found dead, but the snakes were still alive and were later sent to their country of origin.

Mumbai customs shares photographs of its seizures regularly. Most appear to be drugs, gold or cash-related interceptions, with some travellers attempting to conceal illegal substances “inside the body ...

Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp.

In 2019, the BBC reported officials at the Chennai airport seized a horned pit viper snake, five Iguanas, four blue-tongued skinks, three green tree frogs and 22 Egyptian tortoises from a man ...