The leech had been stretching out its body in search of a host to latch on to, which is a behavior known as "questing." In ...

Maybe land-dwelling leeches weren’t technically jumping ... wormy creature scrunched up the lower half of its body, then ...

Mark says you could probably step on one and not kill it. And leeches in its family can lose up to 80 percent of their body water and survive. Mark tells the story of some captive leeches that ...