The incident occurred in Istanbul Airport on November 18. During a luggage check, customs officers found boxes filled with live leeches in the passengers’ suitcases. When it was discovered that the ...

Beneath the crystal-clear, alien world of water lie the great piscean survivors of the Ice Age. The Lake District is a ...

Los Angeles is most well-known for movie stars, fast cars, and palm trees. But with a yoga studio and metaphysical shop on ...

Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.

For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis has been bred in captivity at London zoo, part of a longer-term project to help this fascinating if unloved creature. Once widespread in the ...

Uttarakhand government endorses medicinal leech therapy as a non-invasive treatment for post-surgical recovery and skin rejuvenation, amidst growing interest and some controversy.

Medicinal leeches, once common in the UK, have seen a resurgence, with London's zoo successfully breeding them in captivity for the first time. Despite past exploitation, their role in modern medicine ...

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 ...

Buglife Conservation Director, Craig Macadam said: “Medicinal leeches have an important place in our medical history but are ...

Credit: RZSS/Cover Images A project to help restore Scotland’s population of medicinal leeches has welcomed the arrival of the first babies. Over the past month, twenty of the wriggly juveniles have ...

A project in Scotland has successfully hatched the first baby medicinal leeches to help restore their population. Twenty ...