Authorities in Canada have fined a man for attempting to smuggle almost 5,000 live leeches into the country in his in-flight luggage. According to CBC news, Ippolit Bodounov was caught at Toronto ...

Let me introduce Tyrannobdella rex, named for its single large jaw, with eight oversized teeth. Found in Perú, it was discovered up the nose of a nine-year old girl, who bathed in streams and lakes.

For the first time, filmmakers in the forests of Borneo's Mount Kinabalu have documented the so-repulsive-it's-captivating behavior of a large, red, ...

That big leech is an adult, the others juveniles. Now, I tend to write about animals that are saddled with unfortunate living situations. A fish, for instance, ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of leech sporting large teeth after it was plucked from a girl's nose. The creature, named Tyrannobdella rex (tyrant leech king), was first found in the ...

A new T. rex of the leech world has been named — one with ferociously large teeth, but only a tiny body and just one jaw. This new leech species, Tyrannobdella rex, which means "tyrant leech ...

Oct. 9 (UPI) --A doctor in Vietnam was filmed pulling a "strange creature" that appears to be a large leech out of a patient's nose. The video, filmed Monday at an ear, ...

For months, researchers returned to a single cave in southern China to collect an unusual kind of leech. Shibabdella wulingensis is found nowhere else in the world except the groundwater of Shibadong ...

Despite leeches’ historic ties to medical quackery, they do have a legitimate place in modern medicine as a sort of reverse transfusion in cases of imbalanced blood circulation. While ye olde ...