North America will have a blood worm moon this week. Here's how you can see it
Late Thursday night or Friday early morning, North Americans with clear skies can look up to see a full moon with a beautiful ...
Large parasites found protruding from fish’s head in South Atlantic. ‘The horror’
The grisly discovery was made Sunday, March 2, as a team working with the Schmidt Ocean Institute explored waters 1,600 feet ...
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Surveying Biodiversity with Leeches
Leeches are a group of segmented worms primarily found in freshwater habitats, although a few species live in the oceans and on land. Despite their reputation, many don’t feed on blood, instead eating ...
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Medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
Photomacrograph of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Leeches are aquatic, blood sucking, segmented worms, which mainly feed on mammalian blood. In a single feed they can consume over 3 times their ...