With an olive-green body encasing three jaws, each lined with more than 50 teeth, it looks like a cigarette-sized relative of the skin-crawling creature from the Alien films. Actually, it's far less ...

They bite, slither, and slide — and they save fingers and lives. While the sight of a wriggling, blood-sucking leech may make many people feel queasy, the spineless worms can also help people feel ...

Combining, among other things, suction cups and shower hoses, robotics researchers have created a flexible-bodied wall-climbing robot said to be inspired by one of nature's congenital suckers: the ...

A common worry among visitors to lakes, ponds and rivers emerges every summer - are there leeches lurking below the surface? In 2024, radio station Kiss 91.5 FM posted an article on its website ...

Imagine you're about to join leech expert Mark Siddall on a field search for the giant Amazonian leech. As he leads you knee-deep into the leech's swampy tropical habitat, you consider what you'd ...

Ken Leech, a senior figure at Western Asset Management, has retired as investigations examined claims that he favored certain ...

A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found. By Jack Tamisiea If you look around Waukesha County in Wisconsin today, it can be difficult ...

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Global acclaim is what you can safely describe as the reaction to Oisín Leech’s debut solo album, Cold Sea. We won’t embarrass him by cutting and pasting the review highlights – suffice to say that ...

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Chair Faron Jackson, Sr. is presented with an award from Commissioner Jodi Harpstead of the Minnesota Department of Human Services during the Circle of Excellence Award ...