One woman's Italian vacation took a turn for the worse when she woke up with pain in her ear one night. She had no way of knowing then that she'd just been bitten by a Mediterranean recluse spider, ...

A preauricular pit is a small hole in front of the ear, toward the face, that some people are born with. They’re usually harmless, however, sometimes they become infected and require antibiotics.

Ear stretching (also called ear gauging) is when you gradually stretch out pierced holes in your earlobes. Given enough time, the size of these holes could be anywhere from the diameter of a pencil to ...