Leech saliva also has anti-microbial properties, which protect the wound it leaves from infection. Hopefully I have convinced you it is a good thing that 40 baby medicinal leeches were born this ...

“It was really fun to see them on the field this weekend," Broncos team president Damani Leech said Tuesday. "It’s not quite ...

Caption An international team of museum scientists led by Anna Phillips, the Smithsonian's curator of parasitic worms, describe Macrobdella mimicus, the first new species of medicinal leech ...

It's a great time of year to meet with the giant Amazonian leech. Its kind is just emerging from the bottom muck, where they dug themselves in to wait out the three-month dry season. They'll be ...