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Meet the leech, the misunderstood hero of aquatic ecosystems all over the world, who does not always suck blood!

For months, researchers returned to a single cave in southern China to collect an unusual kind of leech. Shibabdella wulingensis is found nowhere else in the world except the groundwater of Shibadong ...