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 ...

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 ...

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 ...