Scientists have found a leech, a truly disgusting creature, that feasts on mammalian mucus membranes.
As the article puts it:
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Puzzling scientists from the start, the up-to-three-inch-long (about seven-centimeter-long) bloodsucker has large teeth, like its dinosaur namesake Tyrannosaurus rex.
The T. rex leech uses its teeth to saw into the tissues of mammals' orifices, including eyes, urethras, rectums, and vaginas.
What's more, the newfound critter's "naughty bits are rather small,"
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Leeches have naughty bits? Yuck.