Shoplifters come from all sections of society, but police data from last year shows there were almost double the number of men than women caught shoplifting, while people aged between 25 and 34 were ...

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They bite, slither, and slide — and they save fingers and lives. While the sight of a wriggling, blood-sucking leech may make many people feel queasy, the spineless worms can also help people feel ...

According to the report, the man visited an otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat) clinic 10 days into having nosebleeds from his right nostril.

Zoe Nesic had been out walking at Stevenson Falls and when she came home afterwards, she noticed what felt like “something fizzing” inside the sock of her right foot. “I lifted my jeans and noticed a ...

This week, we're bringing you an episode about land, power, and history from Anya Steinberg at NPR's Throughline podcast, and our play cousin Sequoia Carrillo. The word "reservation" implies "reserved ...

Combining, among other things, suction cups and shower hoses, robotics researchers have created a flexible-bodied wall-climbing robot said to be inspired by one of nature's congenital suckers: the ...

With an olive-green body encasing three jaws, each lined with more than 50 teeth, it looks like a cigarette-sized relative of the skin-crawling creature from the Alien films. Actually, it's far less ...

A growing number of people are keeping giant leeches as pets, and letting the bloodsucking parasites feed on their blood for sustenance. The breed of choice is the buffalo leech (Hirudinaria ...

A huge pulsating leech has been removed from pensioner's throat after he complained for more than two months about his itchy cough. Shocking footage of the removal sees the 10cm-long creature pulled ...

Most people are happy to settle with a cat or a dog, but this man shares his home with a slightly more bizarre pet - a GIANT leech. And not only does he let the creature live in his house - he lets it ...

“She's seen the pictures show up on our digital frame, and she said to Allen the other day, ‘What does it feel like?,' " said Leech's wife Jessica Blair Herman Allen Leech said he and his wife Jessica ...