Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team that this week is publishing the leech's complete genome ...

The Waukesha Biota was the center for massive paleontological information, and new revelations found the origin of a ...

A Hong Kong hiker washed her face in a freshwater stream, not noticing that a leech had wormed its way into one of her nostrils, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal. Unaware she was playing ...

The first time I was bitten by a leech, I was swimming in a West Virginia river. I remember the scene perfectly: I crawled ...

For months, researchers returned to a single cave in southern China to collect an unusual kind of leech. Shibabdella wulingensis is found nowhere else in the world except the groundwater of Shibadong ...

White men can’t jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan ...

Sometimes referred to as the “worms we love to hate,” leeches often get a bad rap. They make a perfect addition to horror films: There’s a scene in the 1986 cult classic “Stand by Me” that graphically ...

Hammerhead flatworms — an invasive pest that looks like a cross between a hammerhead shark and a leech — have been spotted in the Washington, D.C., area and across the United States. Experts say the ...

Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team that this week is publishing the leech's complete genome ...