Here's an a real story about a nose leech dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino... which happens to be in the same family and similar habits to the Tyrannobdella rex which starred in that thread. Compare and contrast with what happens in that T. rex leech story going around.

<i>Dinobdella ferox</i>

When it comes to parasitology, sometimes you have to get really up close with your study organism, as one researcher in Taiwan did in trying...

And Tyrannobdella itself has a Wikipedia entry where you can see many aspects that contradict that story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranno...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Tyrannobdella - Wikipedia