Washington, D.C., has seen its fair share of leeches and parasites, but a new one of the blood-sucking variety has been discovered in a swamp around the nation’s capital. Scientists said that the new ...
Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech, according to scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of National History. The new ...
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 ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Recoil or rejoice: Scientists discovered a new medicinal leech in ...
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...
Smithsonian Curator Anna Phillips is on a quest to make leeches less repulsive to the public. Erin I. Garcia de Jesus Smithsonian Curator Anna Phillips wants people to be less scared of blood-sucking ...
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 ...
Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech, according to scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of National History. The new ...
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