Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

Imagine walking into a job interview and the person across the desk literally can't look you in the eye because your face has ...

In an effort to resemble anything but a human, one self-proclaimed body modification addict has transformed their face with implants, tattoos, piercings and ink injections. Danny Englert’s obsession ...

DULUTH — Black Label Tattoo and Piercing welcomed a special guest recently. Famous body modification artist Steve Haworth visited the shop Aug. 1-5, taking several appointments for extreme services ...

In the realm of extreme body modifications, few individuals have taken it as far as Michel ‘Diabao’ Praddo. The 49-year-old Brazilian — renowned for his remarkable transformations and known as the ...

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...

An extreme body modification fan - who 'looks like a jumbled Christmas tree' after inking her eyeballs and implanting skulls into her hands - revealed the 'brutal' reaction she gets from strangers.

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...