A Scottish woman thought her nosebleeds were caused by a motorbike accident. Unfortunately, she was wrong. Twenty-four-year-old Daniela Liverani was traveling around south-east Asia when the ...

A backpacker from Scotland recently found that the cause of her frequent nosebleeds was a 3-inch-long (7.5 centimeters) leech living inside her nose. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Leeches are famous for drinking blood – and being used in medicine. But can these slippery little vampires ever be deadly?

This is the stuff that nightmares are made of: Daniela Liverani thought she was having nosebleeds caused by a motorcycle accident; instead, it turned out that a 3-inch-long leech had decided to move ...

Leeches are one of planet Earth's pinnacles of disgusting. The last time anyone actually wanted a leech on their skin, witches were still something to be feared and burned at the stake, and that was ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of leech sporting large teeth after it was plucked from a girl's nose. The creature, named Tyrannobdella rex (tyrant leech king), was first found in the nose ...

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