Geraldine Pavlick requests her body be plastinated diving for a volleyball. Feb. 26, 2008— -- Geraldine Pavlick is excited to have her naked body skinned, filleted and posed diving for a ...

Most visitors barely notice the sign that hangs behind two human bodies — stripped of skin and posed acrobatically — in a corner of the Body Worlds exhibition. But Vanessa Bello, 27, pauses when she ...

You’re probably familiar with the Bodies exhibition — the displays of human specimens preserved to show their internal workings in unique detail. Well, an exhibit from the inventor of the preservation ...

South Los Angeles resident Erlyne Toney-Alvarez, 67, had always planned to be cremated when she died. Simple. Inexpensive. Graves, she said, are a waste of land occupied by the dead. Then she saw the ...

Erlyne Toney-Alvarez had planned to be cremated when she died. Simple. Inexpensive. Graves, she said, are a waste of land occupied by the dead. Then she saw the intricately plastinated bodies at a ...

In a dim room in Manhattan, a man of steak-red muscle holds a body's length of skin aloft, as though the dermis is some unnecessary adornment. A suit, even, to be thrown in a closet. Limp and stripped ...

Tickets go on sale Monday for Arizona's second "Body Worlds" show, part of a long line of international exhibitions that have showcased skinless human bodies, called "plastinates," doing everything ...

BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life at the Houston Museum of Natural Science delivers a breathtaking encounter with the inner workings of the human body and shows the effects of poor health, good health, ...

Obsession with health and the body is rampant. A particularly ignorant portion of the population, thanks to keen marketing strategies and insidious scare tactics, now applaud the health benefits of ...

Naked animals may not cause even a blush, but a look under the covers of our four-legged friends (and finned ones) is a revelation. Gunther von Hagens, creator of the controversial yet wildly popular ...