An Old Babylonian clay hand tablet (circa 1800–1600 BCE) from the Yale Babylonian Collection that was likely used as a practice school exercise by a new scribe and a fingerprint of the scribe was left ...

Why do we have fingerprints? While impressive, it's not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy. Here's what the science says. Most people associate fingerprints with the ability to solve ...

Over the years, posts circulating on platforms including Instagram and iFunny have claimed that koala fingerprints found at crime scenes in Australia have confused investigators because of their ...

Watchdogs have criticised Police Scotland for using traditional ink and paper for taking fingerprints at some of its stations due to a lack of electronic scanners. The technique, which in UK policing ...