Leeches are a type of parasitic worm. Leech therapy involves applying leeches to a wound to increase circulation, improve blood flow, and promote healing. Its practice has varied over time, but it ...

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 ...

Did you know that leeches - the parasitic worms belonging to the Hirudinea subclass, have been used in medicine to treat nervous system anomalies, dental difficulties, skin illnesses, and infections ...

Scientists have uncovered video evidence that at least one species of terrestrial leech can jump. This behavior has been debated for over 100 years, and can now be put to rest following research by ...

Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech, according to scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of National History. The new ...

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 ...

After a Ha Tinh resident was hospitalized for a tonsillectomy, doctors discovered that a leech that had lived inside his nose for three weeks. The 33-year-old man, who has not been named, complained ...