The baby leeches offer hope of boosting fragmented wild populations. There was even a 1959 black-and-white horror film, called "Attack of the Giant Leeches," playing on our fear of them.

The leeches were eating the toadlets! This was something we really wanted to film for the series, but it only happens over a very short period each year, so it was full steam ahead to get set to film.

But this challenging backdrop became the perfect setting for Kannada cinema's first ‘brain scamming’ sci-fi film, a fast-paced thriller where reality and illusion intertwine' ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley interviews a surgeon who is pioneering the use of leeches in medical research. He allows a leech to attach to his arm and suck his blood, the mouth of the ...