As doctors visited the home of a 65-year-old farmer in North Wollo, Raya Kobbo, he told them his saliva had tints of blood, ...

Leeches are a group of segmented worms primarily found in freshwater habitats, although a few species live in the oceans and on land. Despite their reputation, many don’t feed on blood, instead eating ...

Photomacrograph of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Leeches are aquatic, blood sucking, segmented worms, which mainly feed on mammalian blood. In a single feed they can consume over 3 times their ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto “Leeches are blood-sucking endoparasite segmented worms characterized by a small sucker, which contains the mouth, at the anterior end of the body, and a large sucker ...

Instead of feeding on blood, it hunts down and devours worms, particularly the Kinabalu Giant Earthworm ( Pheretima darnleiensis ), which can grow up to 70cm (2.3 feet) long! As its name suggests, the ...

As the people of Kashmir celebrate Navroz, the ancient tradition of leech therapy, locally known as Drekah, is experiencing a ...

Back around when worms wriggled out of saltwater and into ... leaving earthworms, leeches, and their other clitellate ...

Doctor Kishan said: 'Samples will be sent to the forensics lab for analysis to determine the exact nature of the worm.' Leeches secrete an anticoagulant called hirudin, which prevents blood from ...

This week, robed in twilight, a "blood worm" will pierce the night sky. As ominous as that sounds, don't think leeches — think lunar. Late Thursday night or Friday early morning, North ...