Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marius Gustavson, who led the extreme body modification ring, is one of six men appealing against the length of their sentences ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

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 ...

ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP — Dallas Cole, owner of Alcatraz Body Modifications in Calcutta, is holding a firearm raffle to help the family of Stephanie Householder, who along with her unborn child was killed ...

The mastermind behind the "eunuch maker" extreme body modification ring has lost an appeal against his life sentence. Warning: The following article contains graphic details of extreme physical ...

Borrowing techniques from Hans Holbein the Younger, Phillip Toledano photographs a new kind of beauty. Injectable Biomaterial Enables Tricky Facial-Injury Fixes, Extreme Body Mods Researchers have ...

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 ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...

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.

Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina is officially a two-time Guinness World Record holder. She has the most tattoos and body modifications of any woman in history. Tattoos cover 99.8% of her body, and she ...