As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. In Ireland, the leech was driven to extinction in ...

Pharaohs, French aristocrats and wounded Revolutionary War soldiers alike have used leeches to treat all kinds of ailments. Through the centuries, the ignoble leech has been used in attempts to cure ...

Editor's Note: The video of leeches used in surgery is a bit bloody — especially after the 2-minute mark. Leeches get a bad rap — but they might not deserve it. Yes, they're creepy crawly ...

Leech therapy, or hirudotherapy, has a long and ancient history. The earliest records of leech use date back to the ancient Egyptians, who used leeches to remove blood from the body. The ancient ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Why is it that when one thing goes awry, other minor disasters seem to follow. The oak whisky barrels that fell apart this past winter hadn’t been replaced ...

A new video shows what appears to be the first evidence of jumping land-dwelling leeches in Madagascar, Africa. It was taken in 2017 by Mai Fahmy, who posted about the findings on Instagram on ...

Udelnaya is a sleepy town southeast of Moscow, full of muddy roads lined with brightly painted wooden houses. Behind a frozen stream there is one large brick building that looks a little out of place.

Yes, they're creepy crawly blood-suckers. And they can instill an almost primal sense of disgust and revulsion. Humphrey Bogart's character in the 1951 film The African Queen even went so far as to ...