Researchers manually removed a specimen and three others like it for further study, later revealing it to be a new species of “bloodsucking land leech,” according to a study published April 8 ...

An international team of museum scientists led by Anna Phillips, the Smithsonian's curator of parasitic worms, describe Macrobdella mimicus, the first new species of medicinal leech discovered in ...

Published April 8 | Read More | Cave-dweller with three jaws found feeding on bat blood is new species in China The new cave-dwelling leech species is believed to exist solely on bat blood ...