What Causes Wrinkly Fingers? | BYJU'S Fun Facts

Go for a swim, take a long shower or wash the dishes, and you’ll notice one common thing. The skin at the tip of your fingers and toes get wrinkly and pruney. Why is it that our perfectly normal skin turns into a raisin? Is it because our skin soaks up water and transforms into one? Or is there an entirely different explanation to this pruney and wrinkly phenomenon?

In this BYJU’S Fun Facts video, we journey through the structure of our skin to answer this puzzling question. We visit the epidermis, dermis and underlying blood vessels to understand their connection with our nervous system, and how they collectively work to wrinkle the skin at the tip of our fingers and toes. We also cover why this natural behaviour of the human body is a necessary part of living.

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Video Chapters
0:00 - 0:47 Introduction
0:48 - 2:52 What happens to the skin when the finger wrinkles
2:53 - 4:20 What causes our fingers to wrinkle
4:21 - 5:40 Advantages of wrinkly fingers

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[yuna-exnj]

*Le young me : thinking I have "WATER ALLERGY"😂

[kimakku]

If our toes get wrinkled, it helps us walk in water without slipping
Thank you mam for such an explanation 🙂

[utkarshsingh]

ma'am the wrinkles on our feet helps us to walk easily on less-friction area

[vanshikaharish]

I always wondered what happened with my fingers when I bathe for too long.
Thank you so much ☺️

[asktechnologies]

Our toes too get wrinkled to get better grip when we move on wet and slippery surfaces

[alimuddin-tyqt]

Wow such a wonderful explanation right
Well, you are my one of the favourite teacher I have ever seen

[AshtyForever]

Thankyou Tarana Mam😊😊😊🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Next FunFact=Why we saw dreams
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[aishuaishu]

Impressed by many fun facts and I get more interested to see video when this Mam arrives .. Pls provide more videos with this mam

[aafreenmizan]

That's a question I always ask my parents maam, thank you so much for clearing my doubt.. ☺

[sparklingsisters]

Very nice and an amazing video mam, you are my favourite teacher I love the way you explain it. I had always had this dought thanks for telling me this, amazing animation.

[ananyasharma]

Can the next funfact about “why do we get scared in dark?"

[umanathmahto]

Our toes get wrinkles as the same way like our hand, but it help us in different ways .It help us to keep our feet on a wet surface better than unwrinkled toes .
Thank you ☺️☺️

[hariharansfactomania]

Fabulous and excellent videos that makes us lucid to understand...

[anushreenair]

Woww... Amazing
thank you Tarana ma'am
Proud to be a Byjuite

[anshika]

Extremely informative thank you byjus🙏🙏🙏🙏

[fuz]

Answer: wrinkles in leg fingers increase the friction thus protect us from slipping on rainy days

[factskashot]

I think 🤔 so that the toe wrinkles also work in that sense providing grip to slippery surfaces.

[daddytaeyung]

You are one of the my favourite teacher in BYJU'S 🥰🥰🥰💓💓💓

[Sanskruti]

Yes, Our Toes also wrinkle just like our fingers .It help us to get better Footing in the rain or wet surface just like how tyres do .

[dexterftw]

Lovely way of explaining. The illustrations are too good.