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A staff of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources shows DNA sampling vials containing Tarantulas at their office in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Philippine customs officials were astonished when they opened nicely gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal flown in all the way from Poland and found a hair-raising contraband: hundreds of live tarantulas.

By Associated Press April 4, 2019