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 ...
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 ...
The baby leeches offer hope of boosting fragmented wild populations. There was even a 1959 black-and-white horror film, called "Attack of the Giant Leeches," playing on our fear of them.
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