Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.

Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...

Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore. They are the ...

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 ...

A project in Scotland has successfully hatched the first baby medicinal leeches to help restore their population. Twenty ...

They have five pairs of eyes and a sucker containing three jaws and about 100 teeth. The leeches feed on fish and frogs and can also attach themselves to deer, sheep and cattle when they enter ...