Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian scientists have discovered a new species of Antarctic leeches, whose ancestors migrated to the Arctic millions of years ...

A Smithsonian researcher zoologist and her team have discovered a new species of leech in North America for the first time in over 40 years. Anna Phillips, who is also the museum's curator of ...

What has three jaws, 56 to 59 teeth in each, no thumbs and was first discovered in Charles County? No, this is not a story about Chessie, the monster who definitely lives at the bottom of the ...

A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington. A team led by a researcher at the Smithsonian’s ...

A recent genetic analysis of the medicinal leech has revealed that one species should be classified as three, and suggests that many leeches sold commercially have been misidentified -- oversights ...

Smithsonian researcher Anna Phillips led the recent discovery of the new medicinal species. Its superficial similarities to a North American leech... A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in 40 years, scientists have discovered a new species of medicinal leech in North America in a Maryland swamp. A team of researchers made the discovery in 2015 ...

A new study presents video evidence that at least one species of terrestrial leech can jump, behavior that scientists have debated for more than a century. A new study presents video evidence that at ...

Macrobdella mimicus, the first new species of medicinal leech discovered in over 40 years. (The Smithsonian Institution) Macrobdella mimicus, the first new species of medicinal leech discovered in ...