Why your fingers and toes get pruney in water

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 20:30 in Earth & Climate

By Charles Choi, LiveScience Fingers may wrinkle when wet to help people grip wet objects, find researchers, who say the pruney feature may have helped human ancestors do the same in wet conditions.

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