Medical bills are often littered with bizarre line items. If you're in Russia, those little charges might include half a dozen slimy, slithering leeches. About 10 million of the blood-sucking ...

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White men can’t jump, but terrestrial leeches can. This is now a scientific fact; after centuries of anecdotal reports, the parasites have been caught on video leaping from leaves in the Madagascan ...

For decades, scientists have posed one interesting question about leeches—can they jump? While the idea of jumping leeches might sound like it's only the stuff of nightmares—I still can't forget those ...

Chad Boyce inched the hunter-green johnboat along the shoreline of a Back Bay creek. A pair of spider-like arms on the vessel’s bow held wires that dipped into the water. He flipped a switch and ...

Korean medics are using leeches and maggots to treat their patients. March 4, 2008— -- SEOUL — For seven years, Duck-Im Kim and her family tried everything they could to cure a rare skin disease ...

A new video shows what appears to be the first evidence of jumping land-dwelling leeches in Madagascar, Africa. It was taken in 2017 by Mai Fahmy, who posted about the findings on Instagram on ...

WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

Udelnaya is a sleepy town southeast of Moscow, full of muddy roads lined with brightly painted wooden houses. Behind a frozen stream there is one large brick building that looks a little out of place.

Leeches suck blood from a young patient's during a therapy session in India. Credit: FAROOQ KHAN/EPA/REX/Shutterstock Medical bills are often littered with bizarre ...