Plastic surgery patients were getting infections with antibiotic resistant bacteria, and no one knew why. Microbiologists found the answer in a leech's gut. Their research provides proof that tiny ...

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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 ...

Sometimes referred to as the "worms we love to hate," leeches often get a bad rap. They make a perfect addition to horror films: There's a scene in the 1986 cult classic "Stand by Me" that graphically ...

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 ...