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, worm-guzzling predator. While it remains ...

Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team that this week is publishing the leech's complete genome ...

A Hong Kong hiker washed her face in a freshwater stream, not noticing that a leech had wormed its way into one of her nostrils, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal. Unaware she was playing ...

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 ...

At this week's Screen Actors Guild awards, A-list celebrities looked stunning, of course. Kerry Washington glowed. Jessica Chastain stunned. Jennifer Lawrence dazzled. And while some celebs may just ...

There’s a new BBC documentary called “Wonders of the Monsoon.” In video that’s both nauseating and captivating, the documentary shows the giant leech swallowing the worm whole, “like spaghetti.” This ...

Leeches are gross. It's simply in the nature of these blood-sucking, slimy creatures. They will always be gross. This "Giant Red Leech" captured on film for the first time? Probably the grossest. BBC ...

A new report unveils three of the first genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom that includes as many as one-quarter of Earth's marine species. By publishing the genomes of a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in 40 years, scientists have discovered a new species of medicinal leech in North America in a Maryland swamp. A team of researchers made the discovery in 2015 ...

Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team that this week is publishing the leech's complete genome ...

A team of biologists report in this week's Nature the genome sequences of three organisms that represent more than one-quarter of marine species, including clams, octopuses and the segmented worms, ...