They bite, slither, and slide — and they save fingers and lives. While the sight of a wriggling, blood-sucking leech may make many people feel queasy, the spineless worms can also help people feel ...

Finding a leech on your body can be scary, but you don’t need to panic. We’ll give you simple steps that can help you calmly and safely remove a leech without any pain or complications from the bite.

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Imagine you're about to join leech expert Mark Siddall on a field search for the giant Amazonian leech. As he leads you knee-deep into the leech's swampy tropical habitat, you consider what you'd ...

Combining, among other things, suction cups and shower hoses, robotics researchers have created a flexible-bodied wall-climbing robot said to be inspired by one of nature's congenital suckers: the ...

Here’s a worm that will make you squirm. Doctors in Cambodia recently removed a leech that, in wince-worthy fashion, had entered an elderly man’s penis while he was swimming and drank a full pint of ...

A common worry among visitors to lakes, ponds and rivers emerges every summer - are there leeches lurking below the surface? In 2024, radio station Kiss 91.5 FM posted an article on its website ...

With an olive-green body encasing three jaws, each lined with more than 50 teeth, it looks like a cigarette-sized relative of the skin-crawling creature from the Alien films. Actually, it's far less ...

A viral video of a leech slithering across a hospital floor and leaving behind a trail of blood in its path has stunned the internet. The video was posted to TikTok on October 21 by Kaci Jane Hansen ( ...

A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found. By Jack Tamisiea If you look around Waukesha County in Wisconsin today, it can be difficult ...