L'escargot in cargo: Giant snails with shells the size of a human fist found in airport passenger's luggage - pictures

A group of 36 giant snails has been seized from a passenger's luggage at an airport.
Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport found the living giant African land snails when a man arrived from Amsterdam earlier this month.
They discovered the snails, which are around 15cm-long on average, when checking the luggage of the Nigerian man who said they were to be used as food.
Officers seized the snails because live animals require an import licence which the man did not have.
They were passed on to a rescue organisation and the passenger was warned about the restrictions on bringing the creatures into the UK.
The snails, not native to the UK, have shells the size of a small human fist, mirror.co.uk website informs.
While they are unlikely to survive a British winter, they could pass on diseases to the indigenous snail population if released into the wild.