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

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 ...

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 ...

Rights activists in The Gambia are calling for justice after a one-month-old baby's death was linked to female genital mutilation, a widely practiced but illegal procedure up for review before the ...

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 ...

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 ...