Instead of feeding on blood, it hunts down and devours worms, particularly the Kinabalu Giant Earthworm ( Pheretima darnleiensis ), which can grow up to 70cm (2.3 feet) long! As its name suggests, the ...

Photomacrograph of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Leeches are aquatic, blood sucking, segmented worms, which mainly feed on mammalian blood. In a single feed they can consume over 3 times their ...

This week, robed in twilight, a "blood worm" will pierce the night sky. As ominous as that sounds, don't think leeches — ...

These include blood sucking leeches and liver fluke worms which are a challenge to livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda.In Uganda the major challenge is liver fluke worms ...

This event ripped once functioning genes asunder, including some of those involved in critical cell division processes, ...

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

It's a great time of year to meet with the giant Amazonian leech. Its kind is just emerging from the bottom muck, where they dug themselves in to wait out the three-month dry season. They'll be ...

My main area for responsibility are the Annelid collections at the Museum. They are the segmented worms incorporating Polychaetes, Oligochaetes and leeches. However I also manage some of the 'worm ...

The worms have co-evolved with us to secrete chemicals ... Michael Mosley interviews a surgeon who is pioneering the use of leeches in medical research. Infested by lice. videoInfested by lice ...

This octopus seen at 885-feet was covered in worm-like leeches when a camera found it on the seafloor off Montagu Island in the South Atlantic. Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab It was one ...

This octopus seen at 885-feet was covered in worm-like leeches when a camera found it on the seafloor off Montagu Island in the South Atlantic. Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab It was one ...