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Friday, April 16, 2010

Eww! They have 'fangs'!

Fanged leech pulled from girl's nose: New species of blood sucker feeds from the body orifices of mammals
An enormous-toothed leech, pulled from the nose of a girl who was bathing in a river, has just been documented in the journal PLoS ONE.

Named Tyrannobdella rex, which means "tyrant leech king," the new species of blood sucker sports its "ferociously large teeth" in a single jaw, but is less than 2 inches in length.
Photo credit: Phillips, et al. / PLoS ONE 2010

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