Leeches

After spending much of the 20th century relegated to the dustbin of quack medicine, leeches are now enjoying a…

Nature’s beauty can originate from the most unlikely places. Take leech cocoons, the sacks in which leeches lay…

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York have named a new species of leech after Amy Tan,…

You're looking at Ozobranchus jantseanus, a little leech found in East Asia. It doesn't look much, but it has a very…

Scientists have learned that a common parasite of sea turtles is capable of surviving ridiculously cold temperatures…

The DARPA Tactical Technology Office wants swarms of small spacecraft that would go to space, attach to dead…

In 1994, a group of Norwegian researchers embarked upon a groundbreaking study as to whether garlic was an effective…

As part of our ongoing Hardcore Science Interview series, we interviewed the American Natural History Museum's…

You're out in the wilderness — or maybe just your front yard — and you see a really weird animal. It's like a cross…

This is Tyrannobdella rex, a newly-discovered leech species named for its terrifying, human-looking teeth. And now…

Over at the NCBI ROFL blog, we've learned about a crucial medical research paper recently published in a scientific…

WiFi leechers can be a real pain in the ass; they'd happily eat up your bandwidth even if you told them your life…