Leeches have evolved a strategy for hunting worms that is the ultimate death spiral. Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence “What’s been known is that leeches will just ...

This leech has a scary appetite. But it might be essential to its ecosystem. The largest terrestrial leech in the South, Haemopis septagon, has terrifying eating habits. Yet, its presence in pristine ...

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Leeches belong to the Hirudinea subclass and are a type of annelid or segmented worm. They are related to earthworms but have a specialized anatomy and behavior. There are hundreds of species, and ...