#39: Developing Fingerprints

When embryos develop in the womb, we can see the face, the belly and maybe some hands or legs. Body parts tend to grow at a different rate for each child’s development. One surprising fact is that within three months into the pregnancy, that child has developed unique fingerprints. Those aren’t the full fingerprints the child will have after birth, but only the first lines.

The full fingerprints develop three to six months after the baby is born. Fingerprints are unique to each person and that fingerprint has now become that child’s own. There are over 7 billion people roaming the earth and no two people that exist have the same fingerprint, not even identical twins.