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Your Pruney Fingers After After a Bath Always Wrinkle the Same Way, Study Reveals

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Binghamton University engineer Guy German and colleagues found that pruney fingers always seem to wrinkle along the same patterns.

The blood vessels in our fingers and toes contract when we spend too much time in water.

The findings could have important implications for forensics, particularly in identifying fingerprints at crime scenes or bodies recovered from water.

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