What's This?
Leeches
Check out this mystery photo! It's brought to you by Science Explorations, a partnership between the American Museum of Natural History and Scholastic.
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You're looking at a body part of a leech.
Can you guess what it is?
stomach
back sucker
jaws
eyes
Nope. Try again!
Image Credits:
jaw, Eye of Science / Photo Researchers, Inc.; bite mark, Geoff Tompkinson / Photo Researchers, Inc.; leech feeding on snail, Edward Hendrycks, reproduce courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature; leeches before and after blood meal, leeches on foot, American Medicinal Leech, Malagobdella vagans, Mark Siddall in swamp, courtesy of Mark Siddall.