FBI Hair Microscopy

**liseling** · October 23rd, 2009, 07:59 PM

I thought I'd share this link:

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backis...esearch01b.htm

it's to an FBI site with A LOT of microscope photos of hair and information about almost anything you can think of regarding forensic information concerning hair. I thought it was very interesting.

**iris** · October 23rd, 2009, 08:27 PM

Fascinating. Thank you for posting this!

**catysue** · October 23rd, 2009, 08:30 PM

Awesome. Thanks for sharing!

**liseling** · October 23rd, 2009, 09:14 PM

Isnt it amazing information? I've always wondered what the difference was between human and animal hair and it seems that each animal has hair that might be species specific. Also you can really see that curlier hair has a flatter cuticle and straighter hair has a round cuticle. I'd always heard that but never seen a picture of it.

**Cholera** · October 23rd, 2009, 10:18 PM

Those pictures are incredible! Thanks

**Dachsdragon** · October 24th, 2009, 03:54 AM

That was really interesting! Thanks for sharing.

**morguebabe** · October 24th, 2009, 08:27 AM

How neat!
I have some microscopic images of my hair in one of albums, not none this awesome my lab didn't have an awesome scope.

**rchorr** · October 24th, 2009, 08:34 AM

That is so cool. I used a microscope a lot, back in college. When we got bored, we'd look at anything that we could find under the microscope. Fascinating.

RCHORR'