The medicinal leech is in danger of extinction in the UK because of water pollution, environmentalists say. The creatures – once widespread across the country – are in as few as 25 ponds in Kent, ...

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 ...

Medicinal leech numbers have declined dramatically due to habitat loss and historic medical use A rare breed of blood-sucking leech is being bred at London Zoo in a bid to save the UK’s largest native ...

It's active leech season, y'all. The slimy creatures are often seen the most during the dry summer months when waterbody size is reduced, which has been a trending thing in Texas due to the extreme ...

Dr. John Jellies—also known as "The Leech Guy"—was one of two researchers honored this fall with a Distinguished Faculty Scholar award, the highest annual honor WMU bestows on faculty members. Read ...

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 ...

Loving the unlovable is what saints and naturalists do. I am ineligible for the saint category (just ask my daughter), but I am fascinated equally by mice and mosquitoes, warblers and worms, ...

The ponds at Newborough Forest look fairly unremarkable at a glance but a blood-sucking creature lies below. The beauty spot is full of wildlife, from dragonflies, lizards and a host of insects but ...

A rare breed of blood-sucking leech is being bred at London Zoo in a bid to save the UK’s largest native leech species from extinction. The medicinal leech was once widespread in Britain, but its ...

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 ...