Does the human body contain any truly useless parts? Arguably, yes — but they might not be the ones you assume. Some body parts, like the male nipple, arguably serve no useful function. But others, ...

The Palos Verdes Estates Police confirmed that two more human body parts were discovered in the same area where a leg was found on Wednesday. A leg was found by a beachgoer just before 1 p.m. and a ...

A ghoulish Alabama mortuary worker was sentenced last week to 15 years in federal prison for hawking body parts — including fetuses — to a sicko collector covered in face tattoos and piercings.

An artist from Salem who has been accused of buying and selling stolen body parts had posted on Instagram about having a “real human skull” and offering to sell human body parts to the public, in a ...

Heads, brains, skin, bones, lungs and more were removed illegally from the Harvard Medical School morgue and sold on the black market, including at a Salem woman’s “creepy” store, according to a ...

Jeremy Pauley is fixture in the online oddities trade, known for binding books in human skin and preserving fetal remains. He admitted to buying fetuses, skin, hearts and brains from a mortuary worker ...

Have you ever felt like there was a pit in your stomach? What about a flutter in your heart? It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings — what researchers ...

With many families left traumatised by killings apparently linked to supposed magic rituals in Sierra Leone, BBC Africa Eye looks into those behind the trade in human body parts. Warning: This article ...