As the people of Kashmir celebrate Navroz, the ancient tradition of leech therapy, locally known as Drekah, is experiencing a ...

The leech had been stretching out its body in search of a host to latch on to, which is a behavior known as "questing." In ...

The leech multiplies its body mass by six or seven times and will now not need to feed for several months. The surgeon describes how leeches are used to release excess blood from parts of human ...

Maybe land-dwelling leeches weren’t technically jumping ... wormy creature scrunched up the lower half of its body, then ...