61 Photos Of Unusual Body Traits That Might Leave You Speechless (New Pics)

I was born with Heterochromia & developed Vitiligo when I was around 8-9 years old. I used to hate living with both conditions, but have learned to embrace & love my appearance.

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and rejection of the organ.

Instead of smooth, healthy bone… the surface erupts with sharp, needle-like spikes radiating outward in all directions — like a deadly sunburst breaking through the bone.
This isn’t random. It’s a red alert. A sign that something is growing fast, aggressively, and out of control.

This thing here is called a hemangioma. It's been with me since I was born and has grown in size with time (it was just a small pink smudge when I was 6). Now it's too big to be removed safely; the only method of operation left is risky (if the surgeon makes a mistake, I can die of blood loss).
It's just a bunch of blood vessels. Usually, those things disappear by 14-15, but I'm not that lucky. Well, actually, some people have hemangiomas inside them (on their organs), and if someone punches those people in the general area, they will most likely die of unstoppable blood loss... so I guess I am lucky.

Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) becomes lodged in an artery in the lung and blocks blood flow to the lung.
Pulmonary embolism usually arises from a thrombus that originates in the deep venous system of the lower extremities; however, it rarely also originates in the pelvic, renal, upper extremity veins, or the right heart chambers (see the image below). After traveling to the lung, large thrombi can lodge at the bifurcation of the main pulmonary artery or the lobar branches and cause hemodynamic compromise.

I’m sure I’m just naive, but this was a first for me. Being able to see the delicate vascular network so easily, it amazed me. Almost reminded me of butterfly wings.

I took this photo of a homo sapien (human) child's skull with its jawbone partially removed to expose unerupted adult teeth.

Little tooth buds form and begin to develop into teeth during early childhood.

The orange blob is light reflecting through the hole at the back of the eye.

I had a sudden retinal detachment in 2023 - classic presentation - sudden curtain over my vision moving in from the side. Because it was Christmas/New Year's, I had to wait five days for the surgery. Just one of those things, but not gonna lie, it was horrifying watching this shadow creeping closer and closer to the macula, not knowing whether I'd wake up blind the next morning.

The surgery managed to save my central vision (yay!), and I was told that my retina was "the most complicated, fragile retina" that my surgeon had ever seen (less yay). He was amazing, and he knew when to stop. The end result is that I lost my rear peripheral vision in that eye, but it doesn't cause too much of an issue unless someone is standing right behind me. Compared to how bad things could have gone, I count myself extremely lucky.

The "ear" was reconstructed with the Soldier's own rib cartilage "grown" on her forearm and later transplanted.

Basically, I can write stuff on my arm, and it shows up for a few minutes. I think it's pretty cool, and from my 5 minutes of research seems harmless.

I was trying to open a window, and by God, I opened it.

It was gyoza. I thought I let it cool down enough. My tongue hurts the whole day, and at night it peels.

My jawbone was too thin in the area where they tried to put the implant. It cracked a month after surgery, and the surgeon had to take the implant out. Four days later, this bone fragment came out through my gums.

I snapped both my forearms at the same time.

Cysticercosis is caused by the consumption of infected pork with Taenia solium. The larvae invade muscles, organs, subcutaneous tissue, & eyes. It may be complicated by neurocysticercosis if the larvae invade the brain.

You can see what the sockets look like.

Funnily enough, they mainly leak when I get hot and sweaty, probably opens the holes like pores.

Left eye. I have a "crown" right above the eyebrow; you can even see some hair at the top growing in the complete opposite direction if you look closely.

The real issue is my autonomic nervous system. I like to say my circulatory system is really trying its best despite what it looks like.

My removal surgery is next week, so I'm not neglecting this or anything. I have classical-like Ehlers-Danlos (faulty connective tissue/collagen), which affects my skin, so I'm not really surprised that this has happened. This is my 3rd implant to date, and this has never happened before, so I have no idea what triggered it.

The ring finger was worse, but I clipped it to make it not catch on everything.
Also, they’re all starting at the same point, from two months of nail growth, and they’re only just now falling off.
The same thing happened to my nieces (who I got it from), and I’ve only heard of one other case that made the nails fall off. Perhaps it’s a specific strain that does this?

Went to the dentist because I had a white thing poking out of my gums. Turns out it was my adult tooth underneath, and my baby canine never actually fell out.