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Leeches Didn't Always Suck Blood — Ancient Fossils Reveal They Swallowed Prey Whole
Learn about a 480-million-year-old leech fossil that revealed that ancient leeches didn’t have the biological components ...
This is the gut-wrenching moment doctors removed a three-inch-long leech from a patient's nose in India. ENT specialist Dr Kishan conducted an examination and discovered the large parasite lodged ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines a small group of Old Babylonian incantations which deal with "worms", showing that these "worms" are in fact leeches - ...
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...
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