Strategies of body transformation and the construction of social identity were already part of the human experience in Europe more than twelve thousand years ago” a researcher said.

Body modification artist Steve Haworth performed a tongue-splitting procedure for a client at Black Label Tattoo and Piercing in Duluth on Aug. 1 while guest spotting at the shop.

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.

Teeth filing and skull deformation are examples of body modification customs that were practiced during the Viking Age.

Setting a Guinness World Record wasn't something Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina set out to do when she first began her body transformation. "I chuckle a little bit because I say I got two Guinness ...

September is apparently body modification cinema season, with Uglies, A Different Man, and The Substance all offering a better (but also worse) version of you.

A 22-year-old body modification addict has had a whopping 20 procedures so she can realize her dream of “transitioning” into a cat.

"Body modification — including cranial shaping — was one ... One idea the researchers are investigating is whether AC12 was somehow different from others buried in the Stone Age cemetery. Analysis of ...

But there is evidence of body modification. Archaeologists in the 1980s noted "strange marks" on the teeth of male Viking Age skulls that looked like the teeth had been deliberately filed.

Orylan, 24, of Sugar Land, Texas, had a silicone heart implanted into her left hand to add to her unique look and insists "it's not crazy." ...