British researchers have tested a method to lift fingerprints from the scales of pangolins, an endangered ant-eating animal believed to be the most trafficked mammal in the world. Using standard ...

This tape lift shows fingerprints that were made clearer with a black fingerprinting powder by Daily Journal news editor Noah Crenshaw during an evidence collection activity as part of the Greenwood ...

Maybe you already know that your fingerprints are especially unique - no one, not even if you have an identical twin, has prints exactly like yours. That's what can make a fingerprint left behind at ...

Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense temperatures, gas, and friction of firing a gun. A new ...

Nature's scaliest, most Pokémon-like mammal, the pangolin, is under serious threat from poaching. But according to recent research, the very detail that makes these bizarre animals attractive to ...

Conroe police officer Jimmy Chilcutt is a drug smuggler's worst nightmare. He has developed techniques to lift fingerprints off drug parcels that law officers once considered impossible. "We can even ...

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Lindsey Olson likened the process of applying fingerprinting dust onto a piece of evidence to a “spinning ballerina,” as she used her fingertips to twirl a thin, black brush. Its long, soft threads ...