Leeches are making a medical comeback—here's why we should celebrate it
As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a ...
The Comeback Of Medicinal Leeches: Their Role In Modern Medicine
Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.
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Watch Vampire Bats Run on a Tiny Treadmill to Shed Light on Their Blood-Fueled Metabolism
In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power their pursuits of ...
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Bid to save medicinal leeches is proving to be a great ‘suck-cess’
Buglife Conservation Director, Craig Macadam said: “Medicinal leeches have an important place in our medical history but are ...
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Rare baby leeches hatch at Highland Wildlife Park
Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore. They are the ...
Blood-sucking moths and flesh-eating birds: These are nature’s strangest vampires
In the 2008 film “Twilight,” a vampire describes the scent of blood as being “like a drug.” While in the world of fantasy, ...
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Leeches are making a medical comeback – here’s why we should celebrate it
Some even starve themselves to feed their babies when food is hard to come by. So, remember that appearances can be deceiving and leeches are our friends. Humans have a complicated history with ...
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Rare baby leeches hatch at Highland Wildlife Park
A project set up to boost Scotland's rare population of medicinal leeches has got its first babies. Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig ...