People have been getting tattoos for a really, really long time. An ancient tattoo needle unearthed in Utah is about 2,000 years old, making it the oldest tattoo needle ever found by at least ...

The extremely long needles (10 to 22 cms) may brush your cheek as you walk past, rather than poke and needle like a bossy ol’ spruce. On mature trees the bark is orange with black crevicing.

They are called darning needle cactus by the locals because there's a single sharp thorn for each areole. It's a thin, ropey cholla that nobody grows much anymore. But I have many of them here in ...

At 3 ½ inches long, the tool consists of a wooden skunkbush sumac handle, bound with split yucca leaves. Two parallel cactus needles, stained black, did the actual tattooing.