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 ...

TORONTO, ON- OCTOBER 29 - A European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, is bigger after feeding on a ... More blood sausage. The rear of the leech is the bigger part with a smaller head that has ...

An international team of researchers, led by Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) scientist Sebastian Kvist, have announced the completion and results of their work to sequence the genome of Hirudo ...

Hirudo medicinalis, the most common species of medicinal leech, can grow to over seven inches long.The animal was used as an early method of bloodletting, but humans have been using bloodletting ...

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 ...

CBP officers in Philadelphia were suspicious of the crawling contents of the jars, so they reached out to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspector who determined the leeches were Hirudo ...

George Newport, On the Respiratory Organs of the Common Leech (Hirudo officinalis, Linn.), and Their Connexions with the Circulatory System. [Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the ...

About 300 Hirudo Medicinalis leeches, which are used in bloodletting treatments, were seized in Philadelphia in February Published March 10, 2022 • Updated on March 10, 2022 at 10:40 am NBC ...