Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian scientists have discovered a new species of Antarctic leeches, whose ancestors migrated to the Arctic millions of years ...

A Smithsonian researcher zoologist and her team have discovered a new species of leech in North America for the first time in over 40 years. Anna Phillips, who is also the museum's curator of ...

The bridge over Thorne Gut Marsh in Nanjemoy might seem like an unlikely locale for a major scientific discovery, but that’s where an international team of biologists came across a previously ...

What has three jaws, 56 to 59 teeth in each, no thumbs and was first discovered in Charles County? No, this is not a story about Chessie, the monster who definitely lives at the bottom of the ...

We pass by extraordinary wonders every single day without realizing it. This is a fact well known to Richard Hasegawa, a ...

A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington. A team led by a researcher at the Smithsonian’s ...