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Scientists make troubling discovery after analyzing more than 100 swamp alligators: 'What else is being affected?'

Samples collected at one swamp were exceptionally concerning. Scientists make troubling discovery after analyzing more than ...
Washington Examiner

New species of blood-sucking leech identified in swamps outside DC

Washington, D.C., has seen its fair share of leeches and parasites, but a new one of the blood-sucking variety has been discovered in a swamp around the nation’s capital. Scientists said that the new ...
WUSA

Blood-sucking leech with 3 jaws and up to 59 teeth discovered in DC-area swamps

WASHINGTON — Scientists with the Smithsonian have discovered a new blood-sucker in the D.C. area -- a previously unknown species of leech that has three jaws with up to 59 teeth. The scientists with ...
Time

Virginia: Swamps & Split Levels

Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia’s Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, ...