Ukrainian scientists have discovered a new species of Antarctic leeches, whose ancestors migrated to the Arctic millions of years ago and then returned to the Antarctic. The discovery was made by ...

A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington. A team led by a researcher at the Smithsonian's ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (UPI) --You know who this leech reminds me of? Best-selling author Amy Tan. The naming of a new leech species after the author of the best-selling 1989 novel "The Joy Luck Club" may ...

A recent genetic analysis of the medicinal leech has revealed that one species should be classified as three, and suggests that many leeches sold commercially have been misidentified -- oversights ...

A Smithsonian researcher zoologist and her team have discovered a new species of leech in North America for the first time in over 40 years. Anna Phillips, who is also the museum's curator of ...

Phillips discovered the new leech species in the field, then found specimens in her museum's collections dating back to 1937. If biologists had discovered the "medicinal" leech Macrobdella mimicus 200 ...

A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington. A team led by a researcher at the Smithsonian’s ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of medicinal leech lurking in the freshwater wetlands of southern Maryland. This is the first new identification of a North American medicinal leech since 1975 ...

A new species of leech, named Macrobdella mimicus, was first identified from specimens collected in Southern Maryland. (Courtesy Smithsonian) Washington is no stranger to bloodsucking parasites, but ...

A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington. A team led by a researcher at the Smithsonian’s ...