For months, researchers returned to a single cave in southern China to collect an unusual kind of leech. Shibabdella wulingensis is found nowhere else in the world except the groundwater of Shibadong ...

Researchers discover Shibabdella wulingensis, a non-bloodsucking aquatic leech species found only in groundwater of China’s Shibadong Cave in Gaoming Mountain.

Researchers discover Shibabdella wulingensis, a non-bloodsucking aquatic leech species found only in groundwater of China’s Shibadong Cave in Gaoming Mountain.

Watch this giant leech eat an earthworm. Special | 1m 38s Video has Closed Captions | CC. This leech has a scary appetite. But it might be essential to its ecosystem. The largest terrestrial leech ...

As the British medical historians Robert G.W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton wrote in their 2013 book, “Leech,” the worms were long celebrated as a gentle alternative to the lancet and became known ...

Researchers discover Shibabdella wulingensis, a non-bloodsucking aquatic leech species found only in groundwater of China’s Shibadong Cave in Gaoming Mountain.