WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

Combining, among other things, suction cups and shower hoses, robotics researchers have created a flexible-bodied wall-climbing robot said to be inspired by one of nature's congenital suckers: the ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists with the Smithsonian have discovered a new blood-sucker in the D.C. area -- a previously unknown species of leech that has three jaws with up to 59 teeth. The scientists with ...

Yelena Titova shakes a jar holding a few dozen leeches writhing in slightly murky water. When one of them sinks to the bottom, motionless, she plunges her hand in and retrieves the late bloodsucker.

Most people are happy to settle with a cat or a dog, but this man shares his home with a slightly more bizarre pet - a GIANT leech. And not only does he let the creature live in his house - he lets it ...

Bloodletting and leech therapy has a long and storied past. For thousands of years, physicians and healers have employed the bloodsucking leech to treat myriad conditions that assail the human body, ...

Tasmania Police believe that a blood sample from a leech used to identify a criminal is a world forensic first. Eight years ago, Peter Alec Cannon from Lilydale in the state's north robbed an elderly ...

Inspired by the unlikely pairing of shower hoses and leeches, researchers from Japan and the U.K. have created what they claim is a first-of-its-kind robot — one that’s soft, flexible, and able to ...