Vampires get all the attention at this time of year, but bloodthirsty leeches, insects and birds are just as compelling — and they’re real. Leeches feeding on a homemade “blood sausage,” made from cow ...

Deep in the Amazon, a giant leech lurks, quietly feeding off victims in rivers and swampy waters, largely unseen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Riverside Reptiles Education Center in Enfield has some new residents on view: several different types of insects from around the ...

A recent Jen Koski column about a family experience with leeches reminded me of a similar incident years ago exploring swamps in northern Minnesota. After leaving our canoe to cool off in the muddy ...

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The medium-sized leech can move in an S-shape to swim and crawl like an inchworm on dry land, researchers said. Photo by 杨 震 via Unsplash For months, researchers returned to a single cave in southern ...

As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. In Ireland, the leech was driven to extinction in ...

A Smithsonian researcher zoologist and her team have discovered a new species of leech in North America for the first time in over 40 years. Anna Phillips, who is also the museum's curator of ...

It's active leech season, y'all. The slimy creatures are often seen the most during the dry summer months when waterbody size is reduced, which has been a trending thing in Texas due to the extreme ...

It has been a big year for leeches. A new species was discovered near Washington and announced in August by Anna Phillips, who may have the world’s best job title: curator of parasitic worms at the ...