Now what? Apparently, there are three types of fingerprint patterns: arch, loop, and whorl. The arch is just what it sounds like and starts on one side of the finger and goes to the other.

This figure shows human fingerprint patterns are grouped into three types: arch, whorl and loop. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

How the unique arrays of swirls, arches, and loops on the tips of our fingers form is a ... and down near the crease from the first knuckle. As the Turing pattern matures, the fingerprint ridges then ...

The likelihood of two human fingerprints being identical is extremely low—about 1 in 640 billion. Even identical twins, ...

we knew that the reasons behind our fingerprints’ unique pattern of whorls and loops were a long-standing mystery. But in 2022, Headon’s team published a landmark paper in the journal Cell ...