As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo ...
The controversial singer made the sickening comments in a hate-filled voicemail message in 2005 MICHAEL Jackson called Jewish people “leeches” who were conspiring against him in a shocking ...
LEECHES are adapted by their structure and physiology to an ectoparasitic, blood-sucking mode of life. Some have secondarily become predators, but none has obvious adaptations to endoparasitism.