Customs officials at Mumbai's airport intercepted an Indian passenger attempting to smuggle 52 live exotic reptiles.

The officers found three Spider-Tailed Horned Vipers (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides), five Asian Leaf Turtles (Cyclemys ...

The Indian citizen was returning home from Thailand when he was stopped by customs officials at the Mumbai airport on Sunday ...

Photos from the moment of the seizure show a tray full of turtles and a bucket with the venomous snakes in green and blue colors. According to Australian Geographic, the reptiles can be found in the ...

Customs officials were stunned when while checking a plane passenger’s luggage they found 47 venomous vipers and five Asian leaf turtles concealed within his bag. 44 of the snakes were Indonesian pit ...

Indian customs authorities in Mumbai arrested an Indian air traveler whom they suspected of concealing multiple rare species of wildlife, including venomous snakes, in his checked-in baggage.

Customs department shares photos Officials have seized various snakes and turtles, including a spider-tailed horned viper, an Asian leaf turtle and an Indonesian pit viper, from the passenger.

A closer inspection of the bag revealed three spider-tailed horned vipers, five Asian leaf turtles, and 44 Indonesian pit vipers. Photos show the smuggled reptiles after the discovery, including a ...

For more than a century, scientists considered banded langurs, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling monkey, to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones. They've been ...

MUMBAI: A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai from Thailand, Indian customs officials said.