You might think you know leeches: Go for a swim in the wrong shallow lake, and you’ll emerge covered in sleek black bloodsuckers that have decided you’re their next meal. But inside a leech, ...

A broad survey conducted across southern Asia reinforces the idea that the mammal biodiversity of an area can be determined by looking at the DNA found in leeches' blood meals. The new study also ...

Good news: A new species was discovered on the Atlantic Coast. Bad news: It’s a bloodsucking leech that feeds on humans with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth. In a recently published journal, ...

Scientists have identified mammals present at sites in Asia by examining the DNA in the blood sucked by leeches. They found that the nearly 750 Haemadipsa (blood-sucking) leeches stored the DNA of a ...