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Leeches weren’t always bloodsucking fiends like today. They used to swallow their prey whole
The oldest leech fossil revrites evolution. Leeches are some of the most hated creatures in the world, even though most ...
Scientists have also long thought that the earliest leeches were bloodsuckers. All modern leeches, including species that do ...
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...
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What If You Fell Into a Pool of Leeches?
Welcome to your worst nightmare. You’ve lost your balance and fell into a pool of slimy parasitic animals that eat only one ...
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 ...
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