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, ...

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.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have uncovered video evidence that at least one species of ...

Leeches suck. Most people try to avoid them. But in the summer of 2016, park rangers in China’s Ailaoshan Nature Reserve went hunting for the little blood gluttons. For months, the rangers searched ...

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 ...

It's the beginning of the spooky season, which means ghouls, ghosts, and bloodsuckers abound. One of the most famous bloodsuckers in nature is, of course, the leech. These parasites feed on blood and ...

This bride went through bloody hell on her wedding day — thanks to a pack of bloodthirsty leeches. Just-married Madalyn Wise was all dressed in white and sharing the first dance with her new husband, ...

Demi Moore has revealed that she used blood-sucking leeches as part of a beauty treatment in Austria. The actress said that the "highly-trained medical leeches" helped detoxify her blood and ensured ...