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 ...

This extreme body mod and tattoo fanatic has dramatically transformed herself into a real-life demon by chopping her tongue ...

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 ...

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 ...

A chilling new trend is burning its way through social media feeds, and it's as dangerous as it sounds. Known as freeze branding, this extreme form of body modification involves pressing frozen metal ...

"To be the most tattooed woman and to have the most body modifications feels a little crazy, I am grateful and excited for the future – and of course I am not done," said Fuerzina in a news release.

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 ...