The leech was discovered in a girl's nose in Peru.
Whoa, sheesh. I've never seen a leech like this. Peru, like the rest of South America, is home to some weirdo creatures.
Posted on 04/15/2010 4:34:12 PM PDT by myknowledge
A new species of leech found in a girl’s nose has been dubbed "T-Rex" because of its massive teeth.
The hungry parasite was discovered sucking on the nostril of the nine-year-old girl in an Amazonian region of Peru three years ago.
It was discovered after she went to her local physician complaining of a sliding sensation in her nose.
Doctors believe the girl probably picked up the 5cm leech during frequent bathing trips to lakes and rivers in her local area.
The species has finally been branded Tyrannobdella rex — and nicknamed T-Rex — after two earlier cases from 1997 were re-discovered.
Scientist Mark Siddall said the new species was characterised by a tiny body and a single jaw containing enormous teeth.
The teeth, though only slightly wider than a human hair, were at least five times as big as the fangs of other leeches, he said.
"Their teeth are big and these things hurt, " said Mr Siddall, an invertebrate specialist from the American Museum of Natural History.
"It uses it like a saw — it doesn't need a huge wound because it has incredible suction power."
The leech was discovered in a girl's nose in Peru.
Whoa, sheesh. I've never seen a leech like this. Peru, like the rest of South America, is home to some weirdo creatures.
Around here we call them congressmen.
Groin leeches to be precise.
"the upside, she never had to pick her nose"
Too much information.
As an aside: The process of performing surgery through a natural opening such as the nose or vagina is known as natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery.
the enter the body via the feet, water and once they had one that enters the body via the male member..creepy doesn't even describe them..
Same thing is living in our White House and needs to be removed!
You don’t have to get that far.
I’d be more freaked out about a brown recluse spider found in Texas, than any of the nasties in Australia or India. Check out their bite characteristics online.
yep they are nasty little spiders, we have them here in Michigan also...
WTF!?!?!?!?!
OTOH, The walleye love 'em.
A new species of leech found in a girl's noseno wonder they had to pick the name.
Pororoca
Pororoca
A story about Nanci Pelousi???
Dangerous Visions was a great success, and was soon followed by DV2.
In Ellison's intro to DV3, he confessed that he actually rejected a story for the collection. It was a tale of an alien vampire, much like the legendary vampires of earth except the fangs were on the lower jaw and pointed up. The creature would hide in dark alleys, grab his victim, shove his fangs up the poor victim's nostrils, and suck the snot out of his head.
Ellison said he knows he promised to never reject a story, but he just couldn't leave a tale of a snot vampire in his book.
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